Review of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

"Lyle Wheeler" (Marjoe Gortner) is a free-wheeling young man who seizes an opportunity to steal a car and then outruns the local police. When he stops at a hamburger joint he happens to meet a beautiful waitress by the name of "Bobbie Jo Baker" (Lynda Carter) who wants more out of life. While she would prefer to be a country-western singer she is more than happy to travel with Lyle just for the opportunity to get out of town. One thing leads to another and soon she is caught up in a life of crime with Lyle, her older sister "Pearl Baker" (Merrie Lynn Ross), her best-friend "Essie Beaumont" (Belinda Balaski) and Pearl's boyfriend "Slick Callahan" (Jesse Vint). From then on they are robbing banks and shooting it out with the police at every turn. Now, as far as this movie was concerned I thought it started off a bit slow but it picked up quite nicely after that. Although the acting was barely adequate and some of the scenes were slightly unbelievable the presence of the three attractive ladies just mentioned managed to compensate for it. It's not a great film to be sure but I thought it was somewhat reminiscent of the style of movies during this time-period. I rate it as about average.