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'''''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]]. [[FetishRetardant Very unattractive women]]. '''[[{{Padding}} Forever]]'''. It was directed by Robert C. Dertano.
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'''''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]]. [[FetishRetardant Very unattractive women]]. '''[[{{Padding}} Forever]]'''. It was directed by Robert C. Dertano.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Peaches. Ruby says she's built "like a 5th Avenue bus!"
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* BrawnHilda: Peaches, though she's attractive. The characters {{lampshade}} this; Ruby says she's built "like a 5th Avenue bus!"
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* {{Catfight}}: Well, it's female wrestling, but they take it to a whole new level when two women ''dressed as cats'' wrestle!
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* {{Catfight}}: Well, it's female wrestling, but they take it to a whole new level when two women ''dressed as cats'' wrestle!wrestle! Actually, less dressed as cats and more wearing crappy cat-masks.
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* {{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.
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* 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.
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: A bookie being questioned by the Senate - just Senate--just a single politician (?), mind you - is you--is apparently worthy of being broadcast on national radio. Sure, it was TheFifties, but The Kefauver Hearings this ain't.
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* BrawnHilda: Peaches, though she's attractive. The characters {{lampshade}} this; Ruby says she's built "like a 5th avenue bus!"
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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.
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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", Big," and the subpoena doesn't help him in any way.
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* 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.
--> '''Crow''': Music?! Why now?! Why ''us''?!
--> '''Crow''': Music?! Why now?! Why ''us''?!
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* AnythingButThat: Joe's reaction verbatim to Scully's threat of making him a peanut vendor again.
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* AnythingButThat: Joe's reaction verbatim to Scully's Scalli's threat of making him a peanut vendor again.
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*LesYay: Ruby touches Peaches a lot while she's changing clothes.
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E16RacketGirls episode recap page]].
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Not to be confused with ''RocketGirls''.''Anime/RocketGirls''.
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* [[CharacterAsHimself Character As Herself]]: Peaches Page, Clara Mortenson, Rita Martinez.
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* AnythingButThat: Joe's reaction verbatim to Scully's threat of making him a peanut vendor again.
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* 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 1955 CCNY scandal.
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* 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 1955 1951 CCNY scandal.
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* 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 1955 CUNY scandal.
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* Creator/EdWood: There's a rumor going around that Wood sold the script to this movie to raise cash for ''Film/GlenOrGlenda''. There's a couple Wood standbys in it - Ruby even wears an angora top - and it certainly has the gender confusion that plagued him.
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* Creator/EdWood: There's a rumor going around that Wood sold the script to this movie to raise cash for ''Film/GlenOrGlenda''.''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.
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Did we ever have a trope called this? In any case, Shameless Fanservice Girl fulfills the same quota.
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* MyBreastsAreDownHere: Peaches doesn't mind leering at her ample bosom. It's implied she enjoys it.
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** Par for the course for EdWood, if it's true he wrote the script.
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* Creator/EdWood: There's a rumor going around that Wood sold the script to this movie to raise cash for ''GlenOrGlenda''.''Film/GlenOrGlenda''. There's a couple Wood standbys in it - Ruby even wears an angora top - and it certainly has the gender confusion that plagued him.
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* ScreamingWarrior: Rita Martinez certainly doesn't ScreamLikeALittleGirl. At all.
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* TheFaceless: [[TheNameless 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.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Though he's relatively lenient on the woman, who was skimming off the top. It's debatable whether Scalli is a {{Hypocrite}} for doing the ''exact same thing'' to Mr. Big.
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* CanonImmigrant: Timothy Farrell played Umberto Scalli in three films, including one a few years after this one (in which Scalli apparently ''died''.)
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Monk's loyalties are for sale, cheap.
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'''''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]]. [[FetishRetardant Very unattractive women]]. '''[[{{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.
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E16RacketGirls episode recap page]].
Not to be confused with ''RocketGirls''.
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* AllMenArePerverts: The message of the film, apparently.
* AuthorAppeal: Shame on you, George Weiss.
* [[EvilVersusEvil Black And Black Morality]]: Applied seemingly without the knowledge of the filmmakers.
* BerserkButton: "She used to work in a cheap hotel room, now she lives in a swank apartment."
* BoobsOfSteel: Peaches. As Peaches jumps rope, Crow (as Bob Hope) remarks he hopes she's not on a fault line.
* BrainlessBeauty: Peaches Page.
* BrawnHilda: Peaches, though she's attractive. The characters {{lampshade}} this; Ruby says she's built "like a 5th avenue bus!"
* BuxomIsBetter: Invoked.
-->'''Peaches:''' You know what they say: "Good things come in little packages."
-->'''Joe:''' ''([[MaleGaze openly staring at Peaches' breasts]])'' Not to my way of thinking.
* CanonImmigrant: Timothy Farrell played Umberto Scalli in three films, including one a few years after this one (in which Scalli apparently ''died''.)
* {{Catfight}}: Well, it's female wrestling, but they take it to a whole new level when two women ''dressed as cats'' wrestle!
* [[CharacterAsHimself Character As Herself]]: Peaches Page, Clara Mortenson, Rita Martinez.
* CovertPervert: Joe the Jockey when he's not being obvious about it.
* 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]].
* Creator/EdWood: There's a rumor going around that Wood sold the script to this movie to raise cash for ''GlenOrGlenda''. There's a couple Wood standbys in it - Ruby even wears an angora top - and it certainly has the gender confusion that plagued him.
* TheFaceless: [[TheNameless 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.
* TheIngenue: Peaches
* KickTheDog: The male lead in the movie forces a woman into prostitution.
-->'''Ruby:''' He's the sort of man who would turn a evening's stroll from a recreation to an occupation!
* MaleGaze: Joe the Jockey on Peaches.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: See EthnicScrappy.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Joe.
* 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.
* 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.
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'''''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]]. [[FetishRetardant Very unattractive women]]. '''[[{{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.
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E16RacketGirls episode recap page]].
Not to be confused with ''RocketGirls''.
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!!Tropes:
* AllMenArePerverts: The message of the film, apparently.
* AuthorAppeal: Shame on you, George Weiss.
* [[EvilVersusEvil Black And Black Morality]]: Applied seemingly without the knowledge of the filmmakers.
* BerserkButton: "She used to work in a cheap hotel room, now she lives in a swank apartment."
* BoobsOfSteel: Peaches. As Peaches jumps rope, Crow (as Bob Hope) remarks he hopes she's not on a fault line.
* BrainlessBeauty: Peaches Page.
* BrawnHilda: Peaches, though she's attractive. The characters {{lampshade}} this; Ruby says she's built "like a 5th avenue bus!"
* BuxomIsBetter: Invoked.
-->'''Peaches:''' You know what they say: "Good things come in little packages."
-->'''Joe:''' ''([[MaleGaze openly staring at Peaches' breasts]])'' Not to my way of thinking.
* CanonImmigrant: Timothy Farrell played Umberto Scalli in three films, including one a few years after this one (in which Scalli apparently ''died''.)
* {{Catfight}}: Well, it's female wrestling, but they take it to a whole new level when two women ''dressed as cats'' wrestle!
* [[CharacterAsHimself Character As Herself]]: Peaches Page, Clara Mortenson, Rita Martinez.
* CovertPervert: Joe the Jockey when he's not being obvious about it.
* 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]].
* Creator/EdWood: There's a rumor going around that Wood sold the script to this movie to raise cash for ''GlenOrGlenda''. There's a couple Wood standbys in it - Ruby even wears an angora top - and it certainly has the gender confusion that plagued him.
* TheFaceless: [[TheNameless 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.
* TheIngenue: Peaches
* KickTheDog: The male lead in the movie forces a woman into prostitution.
-->'''Ruby:''' He's the sort of man who would turn a evening's stroll from a recreation to an occupation!
* MaleGaze: Joe the Jockey on Peaches.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: See EthnicScrappy.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Joe.
* 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.
* 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.
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