History Film / RacketGirls

Fresh-faced and [[BoobsOfSteel large... muscled]] Peaches Page comes to the big city and is accepted as part of a gym's stable of women wrestlers. Meanwhile, the owner of the gym, who uses it as a front for organized crime, manages to get in trouble with "Mr. Big," and the subpoena doesn't help him in any way.

* BoobsOfSteel: Peaches. Beauty aside, she wins the one wrestling match she's shown in and her reputation and potential as a wrestler is (one of) the reason(s) Scalli wanted her, as he brags about the fact that he managed to get her on his payroll.

* AllMenArePerverts: The message of the film, apparently.

* [[EvilVersusEvil Black And Black Morality]]: Applied seemingly without the knowledge of the filmmakers.

* BrokenBird: Ruby, thanks to Scalli.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Monk's loyalties are for sale, cheap.

* MaleGaze: Joe the Jockey on Peaches.

* JiggleShow: While there ''is'' a plot here, the film can be seen as an excuse to show off athletic women wrestling around in sports bras for the much of the runtime. Even the headliner "actress" Peaches Page is mostly in the movie as an attractive body (even the poster for the film says as much), as she barely does anything other than get the audience introduced to the setting and having backstory dumped on her.

* BuxomIsBetter: Invoked.

* TheFaceless: [[NoNameGiven Mr. Big]], who unfortunately was in this movie meaning he was always framed in the bottom of the screen and often in the corner making him look small and weak.

* DumbBlonde: The female lead in this film is ''[[PinballProtagonist completely pointless]]''. She never even figures out why people don't like her horse race fixing, pimping, and all around criminally JerkAss boyfriend. Thanks to the dialog, it makes her sound like she has to be told how to use a towel! The script tries to portray her as IncorruptiblePurePureness, but she comes off as naive - to the point of being [[TooDumbToLive ROCK STUPID]].
* Creator/EdWood: There's a rumor going around that Wood sold the script to this movie to raise cash for ''Film/GlenOrGlenda'', which George Weiss also produced. There's a couple Wood standbys in it - Ruby even wears an angora top - and it certainly has the gender confusion that plagued him.

* TheIngenue: Peaches' main role. Aside from the fanservice, she seems to exist just to get other characters to provide exposition on the kind of person Scalli is.

-->'''Ruby:''' He's the sort of man who would turn a evening's stroll from a recreation to an occupation!

* MsFanservice: Peaches' other role in the film as it were. She gets a minor montage that literally consists of nothing but her "training" via exercises that facilitate bouncing around.

* ScreamingWarrior: Rita Martinez certainly doesn't [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Scream Like A Little Girl]]. At all.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: The wrestlers in this movie labor under the mistaken belief that they're legitimate athletes and not an excuse for Jiggling. The male lead tries to get nearly every single one to throw a fight for him and none will.

* SuddenMusicalEnding: There's no music ''at all'' in the film (excluding Peaches' outdoor training scene) until the last five minutes. Suddenly a stock music piece plays during the cop chase scene.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: A bookie being questioned by the Senate--just a single politician (?), mind you--is apparently worthy of being broadcast on national radio. Sure, it was TheFifties, but The Kefauver Hearings this ain't.

* AmazonianBeauty: Peaches. Ruby says she's built "like a 5th Avenue bus!"

* AuthorAppeal: Shame on you, George Weiss. Though this *is* par for the course for Creator/EdWood, if it's true he wrote the script.

* BerserkButton: "She used to work in a cheap hotel room, now she lives in a swank apartment."
* BoobsOfSteel: Peaches.
* BrainlessBeauty: Peaches Page.

* TheIngenue: Peaches

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Peaches doesn't mind Joe leering at her ample bosom. It's implied she enjoys it.

* AuthorAppeal: Shame on you, George Weiss.
** Par for the course for Creator/EdWood, if it's true he wrote the script.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: See EthnicScrappy.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Peaches doesn't mind leering at her ample bosom. It's implied she enjoys it.

* InsistentTerminology: Women's wrestling is a ''clean'' sport. [[SocietyMarchesOn It must be noted that during this period]], point shaving was rampant in college and pro sports, such as the 1951 CCNY scandal.

'''''Racket Girls''''' (AKA ''The Blonde Pick-up'' and ''Pin-Down Girl'') is an Creator/EdWood-esque snoozer of an exploitation film which exists only to show women wrestle. '''Forever'''. It was directed by Robert C. Dertano.

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Joe.

* DumbBlonde: The female lead in this film is ''[[PinballProtagonist completely pointless]]''. She never even figures out why people don't like her horse race fixing, pimping, and all around criminally JerkAss boyfriend.
** She's supposed to be pure. She comes off as naive - to the point of being [[TooDumbToLive ROCK STUPID]].
** She has to be told how to use a towel!

* AsHerself: All of the wrestlers play themselves.

* BoobsOfSteel: Peaches. As Peaches jumps rope, Crow (as Bob Hope) remarks he hopes she's not on a fault line.

* CanonImmigrant / LegacyCharacter: Timothy Farrell played Umberto Scalli in three films, including one a few years after this one (in which Scalli apparently ''died''.)

--> '''Crow''': Music?! Why now?! Why ''us''?!

'''''Racket Girls''''' (AKA ''The Blonde Pick-up'' and ''Pin-Down Girl'') is an Creator/EdWood-esque snoozer of an exploitation film which exists only [[FetishFuel to show women wrestle]]. '''[[{{Padding}} Forever]]'''. It was directed by Robert C. Dertano.

Fresh-faced and [[BoobsOfSteel large...muscled]] Peaches Page comes to the big city and is accepted as part of a gym's stable of women wrestlers. Meanwhile, the owner of the gym, who uses it as a front for organized crime, manages to get in trouble with "Mr. Big," and the subpoena doesn't help him in any way.

* LesYay: Ruby touches Peaches a lot while she's changing clothes.

* {{Padding}}: This is essentially an organized crime movie interspersed with mostly-irrelevant-to-the-plot scenes of women wrestling and exercising that go on forever.

* SuddenMusicalEnding: There's no music ''at all'' in the film until the last five minutes. Suddenly a stock music piece plays during the cop chase scene.

'''''Racket Girls''''' (AKA ''The Blonde Pick-up'' and ''Pin-Down Girl'') is an Creator/EdWood-esque snoozer of an exploitation film which exists only [[FetishFuel to show women wrestle]].'''[[{{Padding}} Forever]]'''. It was directed by Robert C. Dertano.