Girl in Gold Boots

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Girl in Gold Boots

Girl in Gold Boots
Directed by Ted V. Mikels
Produced by Ted V. Mikels
Starring Jody Daniels
Leslie McRae
Tom Pace
Chris Howard
Music by Nicholas Carras
Chris Howard
Cinematography Robert Maxwell
Editing by Leo H. Shreve
Release date(s) 1969
Language English
IMDb profile

Girl in Gold Boots is a 1969 crime/drama film about the seedy underworld of Go-Go dancing, directed by Ted V. Mikels, who also directed The Astro-Zombies. Many people have seen the movie as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The movie has been ranked one of the worst 100 films ever by voters on Internet Movie Database. [1]

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Michele, a young woman who works at a dead-end job, is convinced by an obviously untrustworthy man named Buz to go with him to Los Angeles, where he claims to have connections that can land her a job as a Go-Go dancer. The two head to L.A., along with a hitchhiker named Critter. Once in Los Angeles, Michele gets a job and learns how connected her employers are to the drug trade.

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Nearly half of the songs in this music-laden movie, including the title song, were written by singer-songwriter and sound engineer Chris Howard, who appears as himself and is backed by a band called "The Third World" in the credits (not to be confused with the famous reggae band Third World). One scene features bongo player Preston Epps, who had achieved some fame a decade earlier with his 1959 pop hit with "Bongo Rock". In fact, Epps is listed in the opening credits as "that Bongo Rock man".

Girl in Gold Boots was featured as a Season 10 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Apparent skips in the print used by MST3K led to some amusing continuity problems, including a scene in a diner in which Buz suddenly appears in his seat next to Michele and Critter, as if he teleports in during their conversation. [2] One DVD release (from MMI Image Entertainment, using a print from Geneni Film Distributing Company) shows the scene without the "teleport" skip, but has its own continuity breaks, suggesting two different prints from the original film were used. [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ IMDb Bottom 100. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on July 25, 2006.
  2. ^ "Girl in Gold Boots" (disc 1), The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 4 (2003), Rhino Entertainment, ISBN 1-56605-900-3.
  3. ^ Girl in Gold Boots DVD; Geneni Film Distributing Company, Inc. (film); MMI Image Entertainment, Inc. (DVD); UPC 014381083422.

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