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Breakdown

  • 1974
  • X
  • 59m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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  • Director
    • Richard Mailer
  • Stars
    • Leo Lovemore
    • John Buco
    • Sandy Bottoms
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    • Director
      • Richard Mailer
    • Stars
      • Leo Lovemore
      • John Buco
      • Sandy Bottoms
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    Leo Lovemore
    • The Cops
    • (as Neil Snydow)
    John Buco
    • The Cops
    • (as Dan Oslow)
    Sandy Bottoms
    • The Women
    • (as Semantha Peters)
    Dory Devon
    • The Women
    • (as Merissa Stevens)
    Linda Trussell
    • The Women
    • (as Debbie Shaw)
    Turk Turpin
    • The Revolutionaries
    • (as Baron Finch)
    'Black Dog' Carter
    • The Revolutionaries
    Richard Mailer
    • Neighbor
    • (uncredited)
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    lor_

    By-the-numbers Patty Hearst styled porn

    Though TANYA remains the definitive porn treatment of the Patty Hearst incident of the '70s, BREAKDOWN attempts to cover the same territory in hardcore fashion. Opening credit bills it as "a Message film", so beware.

    It's largely an excuse for interracial sex, as the Baron (credited as Baron Finch) and his minions have sex with white women while stock footage in the vein of MEDIUM COOL shows a militant, confrontational society outside their window. The cops are depicted here as brutish, beating up and raping the women when they interrogate them in search of info about the whereabouts of the Baron. Conclusion is predictably nihilistic but carries no force whatsoever.

    This is hardly the subversive "get Whitey" type of film that typified much of the Blaxploitation cycle, but merely generic mixed combo sex scenes. Technical credits are meager.

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      Richard Mailer narrates the film's trailer.
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      Written and Performed by Leo Kottke

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      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Message Films
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      59 minutes
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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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