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| Directed by | Paul Glickler |
| Produced by | Robert Boggs Paul Glickler Richard Lerner |
| Written by | Ace Baandige Paul Glickler Richard Lerner Tad Richards |
| Starring | Stephanie Fondue Denise Dillaway Jovita Bush Brandy Woods Kimberly Hyde |
| Music by | David Herman |
| Cinematography | Richard Lerner |
| Editing by | Joseph Ancore Paul Glickler Larry Goldman Richard Lerner |
| Distributed by | Cinemation Industries |
| Release date(s) | March 1973 |
| Running time | 76 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$153,000 |
The Cheerleaders is a 1973 comedy film directed by Paul Glickler and starring Stephanie Fondue and Denise Dillaway. The Cheerleaders is the first of a series of American films about cheerleaders made between 1973 and 1979.
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The plot revolves around a group of high-school cheerleaders who have sex with the opposing team's players to make them too tired to play football properly, allowing their team to win an unprecedented series of games. The movie broke some taboos such as statutory rape (a cheerleader seduces and has sex with another cheerleader's older brother; a bus driver is seduced to engage in sex with a cheerleader, while he is driving the bus; the coach is seduced to engage in sex with the head cheerleader, who later on also seduces and has sex with another cheerleader's father; the lesbian gym teacher spoons one cheerleader in the nude and gives her a handjob from behind) and non statutory female on male rape—the cheerleaders kidnap and then have sex with the members of the opposing football team the night before the big game.
The Cheerleaders was followed by The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), directed by Jack Hill, 1976's Revenge of the Cheerleaders, directed by Richard Lerner and 1979's The Great American Girl Robbery (aka Cheerleaders Wild Weekend) directed by Jeff Werner.