The Swinging Cheerleaders

The Swinging Cheerleaders is a 1974 comedydrama film written and directed by exploitation film auteur Jack Hill who was credited for writing the film as Jane Witherspoon.

In order to write an article for the Mesa University college newspaper on how cheerleading demeans women, Kate Jo Johnston infiltrates the cheerleading squad. The other cheerleaders deal with their own problems Mary Ann Colleen Camp struggles to get her promiscuous football player boyfriend, Buck Ron Hajek, to propose to her Lisa Rosanne Katon is having an affair with statistics teacher Professor Thorpe Jason Sommers and Andrea Rainbeaux Smith debates whether or not to stay a virgin. Meanwhile, Kate uncovers unscrupulous dealings the football coach Jack Denton and college dean George D. Wallace are in cahoots in rigging games to favor betting spreads that Professor Thorpe, who is also the bookie, arranges. Later Prof. Thorpe turns against the coach and dean as they turn against their star quarterback, who they want to convince to throw the game for a big payoff. When confronted, the quarterback refuses on principle and is arrested by university police, who plant a marijuana joint on him as they carry out the deans ultimatum. The movie endorses defiance of authority, and questions the ideals of love and virginity.The Swinging Cheerleaders was shot in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. According to cowriterdirector Jack Hill, the film had a 12day shoot. They started work on the script at the end of January 1974 and the movie was in theatres by May. The original title of the script was Stand Up and Holler so actresses would not think the film was about cheerleaders. ........

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