The Cheerleaders
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The Cheerleaders is a 1973 comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Paul Glickler and starring Stephanie Fondue and Denise Dillaway. The Cheerleaders is the first of a series of American films about cheerleaders
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

 made between 1973 and 1979.

Plot

The plot revolves around a group of high-school cheerleaders who have sex with the opposing team's players to make them too tired to play football properly, allowing their team to win an unprecedented series of games. The movie broke some taboos such as statutory rape
Statutory rape
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 (a cheerleader seduces and has sex with another cheerleader's older brother; a bus driver is seduced to engage in sex with a cheerleader, while he is driving the bus; the coach is seduced to engage in sex with the head cheerleader, who later on also seduces and has sex with another cheerleader's father; the lesbian gym teacher spoons
Spoons sex position
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 one cheerleader in the nude and gives her a handjob
Handjob
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 from behind) and non statutory female on male rape—the cheerleaders kidnap and then have sex with the members of the opposing football team the night before the big game.

Cast

  • Stephanie Fondue as Jeannie
  • Denise Dillaway as Claudia
  • Jovita Bush as Bonnie
  • Sandy Evans as Suzie
  • Kim Stanton as Patty
  • Brandy Woods as Debbie
  • Raoul Hoffnung as Novi
  • Jonathan Jacobs as Norm
  • Richard Meatwhistle as Jon
  • Patrick Wright as Coach Gannon

Sequels

The Cheerleaders was followed by The Swinging Cheerleaders
The Swinging Cheerleaders
The Swinging Cheerleaders is a 1974 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jack Hill . The film was also released under the titles Locker Room Girls and H.O.T.S...

(1974), directed by Jack Hill, 1976's Revenge of the Cheerleaders, directed by Richard Lerner and 1979's The Great American Girl Robbery (aka Cheerleaders Wild Weekend) directed by Jeff Werner.
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