This short British sexploitation film – a mildly titillating brew of swingers, rape, shallow social comment and empty-headed dolly birds getting into vehicles whilst showing off their knickers – was shot on location in Kent and directed by Kenneth Rowles.
The production was initially conceived as a half-hour television documentary for Southern Television on the dangers of hitch-hiking (hence the vox pops of those with a view on hitchhiking, which punctuate the film, are all genuine).
When porn producer David Grant suggested to Rowles that it might do well on the big screen, additional adult footage was added to pad the run-time to 44 minutes.
Attractive young miniskirted Mary (Margaret Heald) and Anne (Helen Bernat) are on their way to a music festival, and hitch a ride with a chap with a West Country accent whose face remains unseen, but who ominously delights in showing porn magazines to the girls while driving his convertible Triumph with the top down.
Arguably, the film’s most memorable moment comes when the girls are raped, and Mary is blinded.
Another pair of girls thumb a lift with a lorry driver, who turns out to be far less dangerous.
A third – less innocent – pair get stoned and stab to death a driver who stops to offer them a lift.
In a notable episode, Swedish blonde hitchhiker Suzanne (Ina Skriver) gets a lift from seemingly respectable middle-class married couple, Alan (Alan Bone) and Margaret (Tara Lynn), in their Rolls-Royce.
They then ply her with drinks at a hotel, then book a room. Suzanne takes a bath and narrates her own experience, telling us, “I was very surprised when I was joined by Margaret. I began to dislike what she was doing.”
Fortunately for the raincoat brigade, the libidinous Margaret and Alan are not dissuaded, and a raunchy three-way scene follows.
Anne Davis
Helen Bernat Mary Ford
Margaret Heald First Hitch Hiker
Pauline Bates Second Hitch Hiker
Christianne Mr Ford
Derrick Slater Mrs Ford
Jeanne Field Police Inspector
Sam Avent Hospital Doctor
Tony Doonan Jock, the Lorry Driver
Charles Erskine Pam
Gennie Nevinson Ruth
Stella Coley Murdered Car Driver
Terry Francis Second Lorry Driver
Fred Hogarth Mrs Davis
Sue Allen Carstairs Mr Davis
Ron Patric Suzanne
Ina Skriver Alan
Alan Bone Margaret
Tara Lynn Drug Pusher
Chris Rowles Voice over
Alan Reeve-Jones
The production was initially conceived as a half-hour television documentary for Southern Television on the dangers of hitch-hiking (hence the vox pops of those with a view on hitchhiking, which punctuate the film, are all genuine).
Another pair of girls thumb a lift with a lorry driver, who turns out to be far less dangerous.
Fortunately for the raincoat brigade, the libidinous Margaret and Alan are not dissuaded, and a raunchy three-way scene follows.
First Hitch Hiker
Jock, the Lorry Driver
Suzanne
