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Below the Belt (1980)

Director: Robert Fowler

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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.

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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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