Gas Pump Girls (1979)

I wanted to but couldn't!

Boring

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Gas Pump Girls is a late '70s drive-in movie about a group of sexy girls who decide to save their uncle's ailing gas station by putting their bodies on the line, making mini skirts with halter tops that they remove whenever a crisis arises, such as when mobsters arrive and try to kill them. Their feminine charms work so well that soon business is booming.The movie opens with a scene that sets the tone for the rest of the picture: at a graduation ceremony, a gang of greasers (the vultures) snag the girls' gowns on a nail so that when they step forward the material, which is apparently made out of crepe paper, rips off, and of course the girls are all wearing next to nothing underneath.This modest tone, one of bawdy humour, is not upheld throughout the movie's runtime. The movie seriously falters toward the end, as I guess the screenwriters ran out of excuses to show nudity, or much else to advance the already pretty thin plot. I never believed that the girls and their friends would go to any length to save the old man's gas station. He isn't particularly charismatic when you meet him, and there's no chemistry between him and the main character.I liked her, though. She's very pretty with her blonde hair and blue eyes. The only nudity from her is right at the beginning of the movie, in the gown-tearing sequence.

I first saw Gas Pump Girls (originally to be called Super Duper Service Station) at a drive-in theater in Dublin, Georgia during the summer of 1979. I went to see it mainly for Kirsten Baker, who had previously appeared on the 1970's t.v. series, James at 16. She was last seen in Friday the 13th Part 2 as one of the camp counselors. I briefly owned Gas Pump Girls on VHS video and it has just recently been released on DVD. I have the DVD and after scanning through it, I must say that the quality could have been a whole lot better. Anyway, the film itself is fun and really nothing more than that. It is nice to see the old veteran actors, Huntz Hall, Joe E. Ross and Mike Mazurki. A few of the other actors, such as Ken Lerner, went on to more respectable efforts. Apparently there was even a soundtrack album released from the film!! I'll bet that it is a very rare find these days and would be worth some money now. If you want to see a film that is a painless 90 or so minutes of pretty girls, a bit of topless nudity, some juvenile hijinks and some last performances by a few old veterans, then check out Gas Pump Girls.

Okay, for some reason, the lead in the film belts into song before the end. You have the guys roaming around dressed like the T-Birds from Grease, seemingly out of place. You have a lot a great T%A, and a plot, that, well, has been done before.Gas Pump Girls, much like Incoming Freshman, and much of the 1970's sex comedy drive in flicks, are in their own category. They aren't meant to be the greatest film ever made. They are made on the cheap, and to entertain, and they do just that. I'm willing to bet that one reviewer who commented on this film has never seen it. Gas Pump Girls is a great sex comedy, better then any of the sex comedies made to. The ones made today go direct to DVD, and seem to have a cookie-cutter direction to them. You can merge one to the other.That's different from Gas Pump Girls, Incoming Freshman, or H.O.T.S. The plots may have been the same, but there were always suttle differences. I really wish these flicks, these lost 70's gems, would find their way to DVD.

Are you in the mood for a movie like Grease? Well, unfortunately this is not it. The soundtrack is very Saturday Night Fever, however the movie itself sets the tone for the rest of the decades achievements Animal House and Porky's. Okay so the acting isn't great. The girls are hot, there's nudity and there's even a guy named Pee Wee(Porky's character) in it. Overall I'd say if your going to rent some B movie this is one to give a shot.