Kansas City Bomber

Overview:

Roller girl K.C. Carr skates for the Kansas City Bombers, until a rivalry with one of her own teammates gets her traded to the Portland Loggers. The team proves to be a mess, run by the dishonest Burt Henry and led by drunken captain Jackie Burdette. The only teammate K.C. befriends is the veteran "Horrible" Hank Hopkins. But when Hank ends up being traded, K.C. is forced to fight back against her crooked team.

Released: 1972-08-02

Duration: 01:39:00

Genre: Drama, Sport

Tags: Extreme Sport

Keywords: Roller Derby, Rivalry, Friendship, ...

Director: Jerrold Freedman

Writer: Barry Sandler, Calvin Clements Sr., Tom Rickman

Cast: Raquel Welch, Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, ...

Director: Jerrold Freedman

Writer: Barry Sandler Calvin Clements Sr. Tom Rickman

Cast: Raquel Welch Norman Alden Kevin McCarthy Martine Bartlett Cornelia Sharpe Jodie Foster Jeanne Cooper Helena Kallianiotes Katherine Pass

Genre: Drama Sport

Tags: Extreme Sport

Description

The film is an inside look at the world of Roller Games, then a popular league sport-entertainment, a more theatrical version of roller derby.

The story focuses on K.C. Carr, who has just left her former team in Kansas City, Missouri, to start her life as a single mother over again in Portland, Oregon, with a team called the Portland Loggers. Loggers' owner Burt Henry is clearly interested in her, and he and K.C. date. Henry has a rather ruthless side to him: he trades away K.C.'s best friend on the team, and when he sees that star male skater "Horrible" Hank Hopkins (Norman Alden) is interested in her, he manipulates the audience into booing Hopkins, causing him to go crazy and lose his job. Henry's endgame is to set up a match race between K.C. and her teammate and rival Jackie Burdette, with K.C. deliberately losing so that she can join Henry at a new team he's setting up in Chicago. However, K.C. no longer trusts Henry (or his promises to let her bring her daughter along) and wins the match race.

Roller derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.