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Since we've been talking about time travel of late, let’s plunge into the swirling vortex and seek out GIMPage from bygone days. The year is 1971, when depictions of bikers and hippies and nekkid girls flickered on the screens of drive-ins and grindhouses all across America.

This forgotten gem features 1-1/2 rapes, some nice clothes-ripping action, two of the best female-struggling-while-naked-or-topless segments I've ever seen, a guy slapping a woman's face repeatedly, and just a lot of mean, nasty behavior in general.

Pretty hippie Kristy - sporting a headband, tie-dyed shirt and bell-bottom jeans - fears that her ex-boyfriend, biker-gang leader Reb, will find her and punish her for escaping his clutches. As she explains the predicament to her commune-dwelling brother Jeff, she quotes Reb as saying,"If you ever take off, I'll find you and kill you, you fucking whore," In a flashback sequence narrated by Kristy, she tells Jeff about the night Reb’s biker buddies gang-banged her friend Carol.

When the scene begins, Carol is already naked, blindfolded and being held off the ground in a spread-eagle position by some members of Reb’s gang. She struggles mightily, and screams as they remove the blindfold so she can see what’s about to happen. There are several close-ups of her torso twisting and turning as her tits get groped. Reb pours beer on her luscious body, causing it to glisten in the faint light. This is a very intense, action-packed scene, but no penetration is shown.

“They fucked the shit out of her,” Kristy sobs, “...and I just stood there drinking my goddamn beer.” The girl is cute, but she talks like a sailor.

Anyway, she and her brother head back to the rustic commune, which features acres of pastureland, barnyard animals, about ten mixed-gender residents, and a pacifist leader named Alex. Alex says that if Reb and his boys arrive, they will try to “reason” with them. His followers aren't quite sure that’s going to work.

Meanwhile, Reb learns Kristy’s location by torturing the grocer that the commune buys food from. (A sharp pencil and a road flare are put to use here). In short order, they arrive at the commune and start threatening everyone if they don't produce Kristy.

While Kristy is hiding in the barn, Carol distracts one of the men, by showing her assets, as Kristy’s brother Jeff tries to sneak up behind him. The plan fails, and Kristy takes off on horseback (this girl can really ride). Reb and his gang pursue on their bikes. She ducks into a wooded area but is knocked off her horse. The men catch up and grab hold of Kristy, who puts up one heluva fight .

Reb unbuttons Kristy’s shirt, revealing a sweet pair of natural breasts. Kristy tries to make a break but the men tackle her and rip her shirt off in the melee. Yes! Now she’s topless in blue jeans (Double Yes!), looking up at Reb who is about to pull his zipper open.

“I want you to see what you're going to get!” he says.

(Let’s pause to consider this – since she’s Reb’s ex-girlfriend, the probability is very high that she has already seen what Reb is about her show her. Am I right?)

Suddenly, Reb changes his mind – he wants to wait until later, when all the guys can get a turn. WTF? Instead, they pop some kind of drug into her mouth.

Then they wrap Kristy in a blanket, gag and tie her so that she is suspended between two motorcycles. And away they go.

From a side angle, it’s not clear whether there is actually a human inside the blanket as they roll down the road. In views shot from above, Kristy appears to be moving above a road surface, but the motorcycles are not shown. In any case, I've never seen this kind of thing displayed in a movie before.

The gang stops at a tavern to do some drinking and gambling, after depositing the still-wrapped Kristy behind some bushes. She wiggles out to the roadside where she is spotted by another biker gang with a grudge against Reb.

They take Kristy back to the commune and await the second assault by Reb's gang. When the bikers appear, a melee ensues between them and the biker/hippie coalition, featuring knives, pitchforks, chairs, bottles and just about any other objects that are available. Men fight men, women fight men, it’s all kind of rollicking and some of it seems to be unscripted — or at least unrehearsed — the way you would expect such a clash to be.

At the peak of the action, Reb grabs Kristy, cocks his arm back and sends her flying with a vicious punch.

Kristy flees, but Reb follows, tackling her in the middle of a field. He slaps her several times, although some of them are obvious in their fakery.

All that remains is for Alex to grow a pair and rescue Kristy. I won't give away the ending, but that’s it for the GIMPage.

As a bonus, the viewer gets to see police cars chase a horde of bikers across open terrain while the opening credits roll, accompanied by nifty, harmonica-driven country rock. Even a genuine VW microbus makes an appearance.

I liked the clothes-ripping, the girls were natural and luscious, and their resistance was spirited and entertaining, for me at least. The rape scene was a bit jerky and dark, but it was also lengthy and close-up, no long-distance shots. It's too bad the GIMPage only involved two girls, but what was done, was done well.

No one got any Oscar nominations for this one, but the performances were earnest and energetic. This is outstanding for drive-in fare. My grade: B

In this part of the review, I usually state that the two lead actresses were never seen or heard from again. But it’s not true. Actually, both moved on to successful showbiz careers that continue to the present day.