Mark Lester's IMDB list is filled with drive-in and VHS era gold. There's Steel Arena, Truck Stop Women, Roller Boogie (with Linda Blair, of course), Class of 1984 and it's kinda/sorta spiritual sequel Class of 1999, Firestarter, Commando and Showdown in Little Tokyo.
This American Internation Pictures release was written by Vernon Zimmerman, who has gifted us with just as many demented films as Lester. You can thank him for Teen Witch - Top That! - as well as Fade to Black and Unholy Rollers.
Together, these two titans of, well, movies that only I love joined up to make a modern Bonnie and Clyde redneck film starring former child minister Marjoe Gortner and future Wonder Woman Lynda Carter.
Young country singer and dreamer Bobbie Jo Baker (Carter) runs away from her job as a carhop to ride around in a Ford Mustang with Lyle Wheeler (Gortner), who fancies himself the modern-day Billy the Kid. Gortner was the second choice for the lead after Sylvester Stallone backed out, which would have made the Lyle role seem much more menacing.
Belinda Balaski, who is in nearly every Joe Dante movie, shows up, as does Peggy Stewart (she's an actress from the cowboy era who was also in the redneck film Black Oak Conspiracy) and Gerrit Graham, who was Beef in Phantom of the Paradise and also made appearances in TerrorVision and Chopping Mall.
You should watch this movie to see Marjoe do mushrooms, but for many, there's a major other reason to see this movie, called out on the poster. If only they had spelled Lynda Carter's name correctly...
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
1976
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
1976
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Plot summary
A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.
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April 06, 2021 at 05:52 PM
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Lynda plus Marjoe!
Early HBO Draw
When Home Box Office was in it's early days movies like this one & Outlaw Blues were among the films used to try to draw viewers. The main draw to this one was to see Linda Carter (Wonder Woman) out of that curve hugging outfit with her chest free to grace the screen. She certainly does that here.
This is one of the films on HBO then which made me think that the "B" Hollywood films were alive & well in the 1970's. It was amazing how successful they were promoting this one. This film wets the whistle for seeing Ms. Carter do an X rated feature though I don't think she ever did one.
Put your brain away and enjoy the natural assets on display here, don't take the plot too seriously of you will lose your perspective.
bobbie jo and the outlaw
Does a good job of showing why the Marjoe phenomenon was so brief and the Lynda Carter craze more ample.