Shell Kepler Movies
A performer primarily known for her stint on daytime television, Ohio native Shell Kepler won a myriad of fans with her portrayal of the intrusive gossip-maven nurse Amy Vining on the soap General Hospital -- an assignment she held from 1979 to 2002. Kepler's resumé also included a handful of guest appearances on the situation comedy Three's Company (1977-1984), a small role in the critically reviled Joan Collins feature Homework (1982), and the lead in the smarmy exploitation film Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend (1979). Kepler juggled an even busier schedule off-camera, however, as an entrepreneur who created and marketed the lucrative "Lacy Afternoon" line of women's apparel on the Home Shopping Club-turned-Home Shopping Network. The brand garnered such popularity among female viewers that at one point its annual income reportedly exceeded 20 million dollars. Kepler died at age 49 in February 2008. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Michael Morgan stars as a teen obsessed with losing his virginity, and who gets his wish with Joan Collins, the mother of one of his best friends. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- Starring:
- Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, (more)
When the drug craze of the '60s invades the straight-laced world of a military academy, a group of young cadets turn the school upside down. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
- 1979
- R
This smarmy exploitation film from director Jeff Werner posits a busload of cheerleaders kidnapped for a two million dollar ransom by some ex-jocks who take them to a remote cabin. This is another one of those movies where none of the characters behave like real people. Forced to strip by their captors, the cheerleaders (from three rival high-schools) let their competitive spirit get the best of them and are soon giggling and preening naked in a gunpoint beauty-pageant. One of the captors is a "sensitive guy" (Robert Houston of The Hills Have Eyes), which he proves by masturbating in the doorway while a female kidnapper molests one cheerleader in a bathtub. Kristine DeBell stars as a captive who falls for ringleader Jason Williams before the ludicrous finale involving a complicated hotel ransom-drop and a cheerleader swinging a chainsaw. This is an extremely tacky film, even for its subgenre, but it probably started off much worse. Some racial epithets have obviously been removed by re-dubbing, and what appears to have been a fairly graphic rape scene has been excised. What remains is neither innocuous enough to be funny or sick enough to be a cult film. The only things that make this picture worth seeing are the cast and the frequent topless scenes. Serious drive-in devotees will recognize Shell Kepler of the teen-angst classic Homework, as well as stars DeBell and Williams, who also appeared in the X-rated Alice in Wonderland for this film's producer, onetime porn director Bill Osco (Mona, the Virgin Nymph).. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
