The moonshiner father of three women is killed by a rival bootlegging syndicate, and the three daughters carry on the family business. In this movie are Susan Howard from Petrocelli and Dallas, Maureen McCormick from The Brady Bunch, and Claudia Jennings from some rather trashy movies. John Saxon plays J. B. Johnson, a hot rodder who, Dot says, is interested in only cars and women and goes as fast as he can with both of them. J. B. teaches Dot how to run shine in a nice hot Mustang, but she drives it into a body of water. J. B. drives a Dodge Challenger. It seems a rival runner drove a '70 Roadrunner with an "auxillary fuel tank" for hauling shine. And there was a hypocritical preacher who was really out to make money on shine. Well, the law enforcement is on the lookout, and if one shine business doesn't go out of business, the other one will.

The three daughters of a Prohibition Bootlegger inherit their father's still and decide to reopen business, creating a moonshine war with fellow bootlegger William Conrad. Susan Howard, Claudia Jennings and Maureen McCormick discover the underground still by accident complete with a secret entrance through a cave) and find out that the booze he left behind is the genuine article, really good stuff. That interferes in the sales of the cheap hooch Conrad is making, and soon it's all out war between the three little ladies and the obnoxiously obese Conrad. Howard finds aide withbooze runner John Saxon who was originally protecting Conrad, and as the violence escalates against them, the three young ladies take matters into their own hands that threatens to bring down the big ole' bad guy.

I was remarkably surprised by how much I enjoyed this film, non-stop action and never too tedious with ridiculous Southern stereotypes. Certainly, Conrad's character oh, a big old fat ass, is reminiscent of villains going back to the Capra years (particularly Edward Arnold), and it's fun to watch him being taken down by a woman, along with Sheriff Morgan Woodard who was responsible for the father's death. The only problem is I wanted Conrad to get more than he gets, and the end was a bit of a disappointment. But Howard and Saxon do good jobs in a film that fortunately features a better-than-expected script where the characters having a very nicely fleshed-out.

The Hammer Sisters are the kind of tough Southern girls that deal with their daddy's murder by taking over his moonshine business, grabbing some weapons and being way tougher than any of the men they battle. Is that enough to get you to watch this movie?

What if I told you that it was directed by the same man who brought us The Evil, The Side Hackers and the movie based on the song Take This Job and Shove It?

Not yet? How does John Saxon playing a Southern stock car racer and moonshine runner sound? Not yet?

How about Susan Howard, former Dallas actress turned 700 Club host and NRA supporter?

William Conrad? Jeff Corey? Len "Uncle Leo" Lasser? Maurine "Marcia Brady" McCormick? Still not sold?

I get it. John Saxon was enough for me. But then I thought, I bet this movie has Claudia Jennings in it. And I was right. And that's all it took.

What was it about American pop culture that took hicksploitation from the drive-in to the mainstream? I remember it myself - everyone had a CB radio, we all turned in to The Dukes of Hazzard and watched Smokey and the Bandit on HBO. Heck, I even had a silver NASCAR jacket that made me look like a 5-year-old pit crew member.

From the very first moment that John Saxon appears on screen and does his best version of a Southern accent, I was thoroughly entertained by this silly trifle of a film. It's a Roger Corman 1970's drive-in movie, so you're going to get plenty of cars getting smashed up, scummy bad guys and "100 proof women" like Candice Rialson (Chatterbox, Pets).