Dirty O'Neil (1974) is a movie I recently watched on Amazon Prime. The storyline is about a police officer who uses his sex appeal to get in good with all kinds of ladies. As a police officer there seems to be ladies around every corner and every one wants him. Will O'Brien ever be more than a womanizer? This movie is codirected by Leon Capetanos (Summer Run) and Lewis Teague (Cujo) and stars Morgan Paull (Blade Runner),Art Metrano (Police Academy 2 & 3),Jeane Manson (The Piano Player) and Katie Saylor (Supervan). The storyline for this picture is painful. For being a ladies man Officer O'Neil seemed to consistently struggle talking with the ladies. It felt like a writer who was a non-ladies man writing about a ladies man. There are all of the great nude scenes you'd expect from this era - shower scenes, locker room scenes, peeping-tom scenes, soft sex scenes, topless swimming scenes and every other soft porn scenario. I will say the final shootout came out of nowhere and was extremely entertaining and actually raised this grade an entire point for me for what was an underwhelming film until that point. I'd score this a 5/10 and would watch it if you can't find anything else interesting.

Reading up on IMDb and other sites that the movie Drive-In was celebrating its 79th birthday,I decided to look through my DVDs,in the hope of finding a movie which would contain some of the 1970's Drive-In spirit.Getting near the end to a row of titles,my eyes were instantly fixed on a movie which looked to contain the sleaze and charm that has been in the beating heart of the Drive-In for many decades.

The plot:

Despite originally having big dreams of one day joining the LAPD,police officer Jimmy O'Neil has instead decided to stay as a local cop of a small Texas town.With the most serious crime committed being an old married couple having a food fight,O'Neil passes the time in the sleepy town by being the head coach of a local all-girls basketball team,and also by playing "cop (s) and robbers" with all of the beautiful girls based in the town.Shortly after O'Neil has finished his final patrol of the night,a gang suddenly ride in to town,who after killing the owner of a gas station,begin to plan on how to open this sleepy town wide apart.

View on the film:

For the screenplay of the film,writer/director Leon Capetanos, (who became the director,after the original director:Lewis Teague was fired) keeps the first hour of the film cheerfully sunny-side-up.With Jimmy O'Neil (played by a fun, Morgan "Blade Runner" Paull )handling his police duties with a smooth charm and easy going flirting,that along with calming the towns folks nerves,also leads to all of the beautiful girls that he meets (which include the stunning future January 1971 Playboy Playmate Liv Lindeland!) ripping their clothes off right from the moment he sets his sights on them.

During this fun movies final 30 minutes, Capetanos unexpectedly takes the film into a surprisingly restrained,serious direction.Whilst this change does lead to the movies terrific light comedy moments being pushed to the side, Capetanos decides to end the film in a weirdly gory battle,that gives the previously cheerful movie a bitter aftertaste.

"Dirty O'Neil" is something else. It starts with a violent robbery then it becomes a okay T&A movie before wrapping that forgotten robbery stuff up. It plays like an edited soft-core movie. By that I mean it never reaches the sex level of that genre but there is a bunch of welcome nudity. If this movie went for the PG crowd it would have been truly awful. But because it proudly went for the R crowd, it's actually watchable. Pretty stupid but watchable.