The Unholy Rollers

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"ok it's exploitative and moderately offensive but when was the last time you saw a movie with a female heroine who is free to be a complete asshole?" - sydney, Letterboxd In the roller derby classic UNHOLY ROLLERS, Claudia Jennings turns in what a very impressed Roger Ebert called "the hardest, most vicious female performance in a long time." She plays the kind of Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell gum-chewing, working-class heroine that Hollywood excelled at depicting before the Production Code stepped in and made screen women all soft and domesticated. Here Jennings rises from a dreary life working in a cat-food factory to become a roller-derby queen who skates to win, no matter what the scr

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