California Girls (1980) User Reviews

Extremely poor roller skating porn, the work of RDS

[lor_ · 28 May 2015]

Though not credited, the mighty hand of Ray Dennis Steckler is all over this desultory porn video, which is spelled "California Girl" (singular) on screen in the opening credits. Alpha Blue Archives transferred a VHS to DVD for RDS fans to suffer through.

Besides the gals on skates (all shot as guerrilla filmmaking with unpaid extras in the park or on the sidewalk included -I'm certain no release forms were ever signed), John Holmes also appears awkwardly on roller skates, merely looking goofy. The film ends with a stupid race between him and Rhonda Jo Petty (latter anxious to hump her way unto the T-Birds roller derby pro team) which she wins by tripping him and perhaps injuring the big fella.

As a corrupt guy who promises to help her get on the team in exchange for sex, R.J. Reynolds puts in an appearance as does Tiffany Clark in AC/DC mode.

The only difference between this crap and a zillion other Steckler skating epics is that Mike Ranger and the goofy gals of Las Vegas are missing. If he wanted to make a real movie he would have included some actual (even pirated or just stock footage) roller derby action but no such luck.

Stinker is accompanied on its 3-fer DVD with an even more obscure Vegas-set loop carrier titled A TOUCH OF LOVE that is not even in IMDb (yet), credited to fictitious director Randall Hayes, and either made by RDS (as Alpha Blue contends) or perhaps Hal Freeman who poached on Steckler's domain occasionally (see: THE BEST LITTLE CATHOUSE IN LAS VEGAS on which RDS was Hal's cameraman).

actors from the golden era on their retreat

[trashgang · 3/10 · 25 April 2012]

I came across this flick on a sell-out of a video store. I'm not a viewer of the genre, I adore horror and exploitation which leads to 42nd street in New York. A place known for their grindhouses showing porn and horror. But it were the names on the sleeve(Rhonda Jo Petty and John Holmes) that did ring a bell.

Porn had it's golden age in the seventies and early eighties until the VHS came out. The flicks made did had actual acting and a story to tell, some where even called 'roughies' due the horror added towards them like for example Forced Entry (1973). Some of those flicks are already out on DVD and others do pop up on a regular base on ex rental VHS but some are still obscure and hard to get just like California Girls. And even about this flick I couldn't found any information. It is not known who directed it and ii only has 4 names that we know of that we see in this flick. Even specialized sites and magazines (cinema sewer) couldn't tell anything about this flick. That's weird because it do has some big names from the genre.

The flick itself doesn't has anything to offer. The story is very simple, some rollers (Rhonda and Tiffany Clark) do met a champion (John Holmes). From there on it's having fun with him and the owner of the roller track. The girls do that by giving head all the time. Nothing else is happening except a long intercourse between John and Rhonda. Before you know it the flick is over with a stupid ending and no script at all. Even that's weird because the 'actors' were big names back then but a bit on the end of their career.

Rhonda spent a little more than ten years in the industry. But she failed to become a superstar because she couldn't act although that her scenes were enjoyable. But Rhonda got her breakthrough in porn by being published as the cock-sucking Farrah Fawcett. She became a good friend of John Holmes after appearing in flicks and went further to this roller flick and also in the roller 'Sex Rink'(1976), her second feature. In 1987 she left the business and got married.

John Holmes is maybe the biggest name in the porn industry playing over 2500 flicks. John was seen in a sauna in Gardena after catching pneumonia. What people noticed was his big cock. Due that he never could get an erection in any flick. He became the star of porn but at the end of the seventies he was starting to use drugs, a thing not uncommon on a porn set back then. He got addicted and went on to do thefts and even was accused a a brutal murder of 4, called The Wonderland Killings. Holmes told the drugs gang to rob club owner Eddie Nash, but he told Nash who did it and the killings were on. From there on it was the downward spiral. He performed mostly without precaution and was told he got AIDS in 1985. He even did perform while having the disease. After he married Laurie Rose he was taken to a hospital just 45kg of weight. The cops still harassing him to confess, a thing he never did. He died in 1988.

Another name from the genre performing in this flick was R.J. Reynolds. He performed a lot with another golden name, Seka. R.J. died in 1987 age 32 on AIDS About Tiffany Clark isn't much to say, she is still alive as did Rhonda. A strange flick with 4 actors from the golden era on retreat.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 0/5 Comedy 0/5