(Some Spoilers) Refreshing honest movie about the world of Roller Derby skating involving the somewhat insecure,in most of her scenes, as well as hard hitting Recquel Welch as Roller Derby star K.C Carr. Having been banned from the Kansas City Bombers after losing a match race to her rival on the team the some 250 pound Big Bertha Boglinai, Patti "Moo Moo" Cavin, K.C's, or Dianne, was picked up by Roller Derby mogul Burt Henry, Kevin McCarthy, who owns the championship Portland Loggers.
On the Logger team K.C' presence starts to set off alarm bells with the teams star rammer Jackie Burdette, Helena Kallianiotes, who feels, rightfully so, that K.C will eventually replace her as the team captain and star. K,C for her part just want's to be a team player but it's the manipulative Henry who has other plans for her. Besides wanting K,C to replace Jackie as the star attraction on the Loggers he also wants to get her into the sack with him!
Trying not to make waves with her teammates K.C's attraction to the teams owner, Burt Henry, has them turn on her feeling that she's using her sexy body to get ahead at their expense. It's when K.C gets involved, in a non-sexual relationship, with one of the male members of the Loggers the gentle giant "Horrible Hank" Hopkins, Norman Alden, that a jealous Henry starts to manipulate him as well. Right out of the Logger's staring lineup and eventually, by being traded, the team itself!
Having Hank put some "color" into his act Henry has the poor guy lose it all at a game where he ends up almost beaten unconscious by the opposing players. Trying to come to K.C's rescue, who's being unmercifully attack by both the women and men of the opposing team,Hank ends up being plummeted with both fists and kicks as well as pelted, with cups and bottlers as well as folding chairs, by the outraged separators! Told by a very pi**ed off Henry that he's been traded and to pack up and get out of town Hank completely breaks down and starts skating, making hog calls, around an empty skating ring until he's wrestled to the ground cuffed and taken away by the arena security guards.
K.C who was always very kind and understanding to the love sick Hank ends up getting the short end of the stick from him. Hank feels, like almost everyone else on the Loggers, that K.C used her body to not only get ahead but get him canned by her "lover" Burt Henry. It's then that Henry comes up with another one of his hair brained scheme's to get people to attend the Logger games in promoting a match race between K.C and her rival Jackie with the loser having to leave Portland forever; and forever is a long long long time!
***SPOILERS*** With the fix in the two championship skaters are told in advance who's to end up winning the race. It's then that both K.C and Jackie decide, despite being in jeopardy of being banned from the sport for life, to see who's really the best without Henry, or anyone else, deciding it for them.
P.S look for a 10 year old Jodie Foster in the film as K.C's daughter Rita. The very exciting and heart lifting ending in the movie "Kansas City Bomber" was used some three years later in the 1975 futuristic classic "Rollerball". That movie had James Caan, the male version of K.C Carr in the film, as the undefeated Rollerball champ Johnathan E.
On the Logger team K.C' presence starts to set off alarm bells with the teams star rammer Jackie Burdette, Helena Kallianiotes, who feels, rightfully so, that K.C will eventually replace her as the team captain and star. K,C for her part just want's to be a team player but it's the manipulative Henry who has other plans for her. Besides wanting K,C to replace Jackie as the star attraction on the Loggers he also wants to get her into the sack with him!
Trying not to make waves with her teammates K.C's attraction to the teams owner, Burt Henry, has them turn on her feeling that she's using her sexy body to get ahead at their expense. It's when K.C gets involved, in a non-sexual relationship, with one of the male members of the Loggers the gentle giant "Horrible Hank" Hopkins, Norman Alden, that a jealous Henry starts to manipulate him as well. Right out of the Logger's staring lineup and eventually, by being traded, the team itself!
Having Hank put some "color" into his act Henry has the poor guy lose it all at a game where he ends up almost beaten unconscious by the opposing players. Trying to come to K.C's rescue, who's being unmercifully attack by both the women and men of the opposing team,Hank ends up being plummeted with both fists and kicks as well as pelted, with cups and bottlers as well as folding chairs, by the outraged separators! Told by a very pi**ed off Henry that he's been traded and to pack up and get out of town Hank completely breaks down and starts skating, making hog calls, around an empty skating ring until he's wrestled to the ground cuffed and taken away by the arena security guards.
K.C who was always very kind and understanding to the love sick Hank ends up getting the short end of the stick from him. Hank feels, like almost everyone else on the Loggers, that K.C used her body to not only get ahead but get him canned by her "lover" Burt Henry. It's then that Henry comes up with another one of his hair brained scheme's to get people to attend the Logger games in promoting a match race between K.C and her rival Jackie with the loser having to leave Portland forever; and forever is a long long long time!
***SPOILERS*** With the fix in the two championship skaters are told in advance who's to end up winning the race. It's then that both K.C and Jackie decide, despite being in jeopardy of being banned from the sport for life, to see who's really the best without Henry, or anyone else, deciding it for them.
P.S look for a 10 year old Jodie Foster in the film as K.C's daughter Rita. The very exciting and heart lifting ending in the movie "Kansas City Bomber" was used some three years later in the 1975 futuristic classic "Rollerball". That movie had James Caan, the male version of K.C Carr in the film, as the undefeated Rollerball champ Johnathan E.