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Below the Belt (1980)
Director: Robert Fowler
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A cheapo independent precursor of Aldrich's California Dolls, adapting road movie clichés to the women's wrestling circuit, which lacks - if you'll excuse the expression - the balls of classic exploitation. Baff (cast as virtually the same waif she patented as truckers' moll Janice for Joseph Strick) quits the urban dead-end for an apprenticeship of grappling gigs in the Southern States, learning the ropes before inevitably bringing an old pro favourite to her knees and the crowd to its feet.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Fowler
Producer: Robert Fowler
Cast: Regina Baff, John C Becher, Jane O'Brien, Mildred Burke, James Gammon, Annie McGreevey, Billie Mahoney full cast
Duration: 98 mins
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