Meeting point in Los Angeles
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Meeting point in Los Angeles |
| Original title | Girl in Gold Boots |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ted V. Mikels |
| script |
Leighton J. Peatman Art Names John T. Wilson |
| production | Ted V. Mikels |
| music | Nicholas Carras |
| camera | Robert Maxwell |
| cut | Leo H. Shreve |
| occupation | |
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Meeting Point Los Angeles is an American film directed by Ted V. Mikels from 1968.
action
The seedy Buz is on his way to Los Angeles and takes the young waitress Michele into a bistro. You can dance and Buz promises to make it with his sister Joanie known that in a nightclub in LA as a go-go dancer works. Michele joins him despite doubts that the only alternative is to live with her brutal and always drunk father. On the way to LA they both take the young Finley Jones, known as "Critter", with them. He is on the road with a guitar and tells them that he was previously active in the Peace Corps. Soon there is a dispute between Buz and Critter as both are interested in Michelle. She, in turn, desperately wants to be a dancer and does not turn away from Buz when he ambushes a gas station while driving and threatens two aggressive motorcyclists with a gun.
In LA, the three of them stop at the Hounted House nightspot , where Joanie dances. They are greeted suspiciously by local owner Leo McCabe, but she actually turns out Joanie as Buz's sister. Michelle auditions and is hired. She ignores Critter's warning that the club is no place for her. Buz starts working for Leo, while Critter starts cleaning the nightclub. Michelle has immediate success as a dancer and is soon allowed to replace the star of the evening Joanie on a trial basis, as she has a pill problem. Critter is noticed by the club's band as a songwriter. He can sell some songs for $ 100. He asks Michelle to go with him and tells her that he will actually be drafted into the army in a week, but that he plans to desert. She turns away from him, even though she now knows from Critter that Leo and Buz are dealing with LSD on a large scale .
When an LSD handover, Buz is pursued by Harry Blatz. Harry turns out to be an impostor - he claims to be a prison director even though he is only a regular guest there as a petty crook - but knows that after a raid on the Eastwood County Jail, around $ 100,000 are in store. Leo gives Buz a free hand for a coup on his own, which Critter overhears. Buz can steal the money, killing Harry as an accomplice. Meanwhile, Michelle experiences how the pill-addicted Joanie is dropped by Leo without pity. Leo offers her her job. However, Michelle decides to flee with Critter. Since Critter turns out to be an accomplice in the Harry Blatz case, a fight ensues between Leo, Buz and Critter, which Critter wins. However, he does not leave as Leo suggests, but calls the police to put an end to the hustle and bustle. A little later, Critter and Michelle are on their honeymoon before Critter will join the army.
production
Meeting Point Los Angeles was filmed on location in Los Angeles. Nora Maxwell created the costumes and Rod Wilmoth designed the film . The gogo girl group in the film is the "Gold Boot 'Girl Dancers". Preston Epps can be seen at the bongos during a party scene.
Chris Howard wrote numerous songs for the film, which he performed in the nightclub scenes with the band The Third World : Girl in Gold Boots , For You , Do You Want to Laugh or Cry , Hello Michele and One Good Time, One Place . Other songs heard in the film are Lonesome Man , Sin , You Gotta Come Down , Strange Thing , Cowboy Santa , Don't Worry, Don't Hurry and Tomorrow and You . These songs were sung by Larry Cartell , Joe Valino and Jody Daniels , respectively .
Meeting Point Los Angeles first hit cinemas on April 25, 1968 in Houston and was released on video in the US in 1995. In Germany, the film was released on DVD in 2005. The comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) presented the film on April 18, 1999, where it was commented humorously in the style of the series.
Web links
- Meeting point Los Angeles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Girl in Gold Boots . In: Kenneth White Munden, American Film Institute: The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 2 . University of California Press, 1997, p. 402.