Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather!  I went into this film expecting another “grind ‘em out” softcore exercise, but (surprise!) Delinquent School Girls is a hilarious self-parody full of breasts, cinema in-jokes, breasts, a tightly wound plot and… oh, yes, breasts.

Three escapees from a prison for the criminally insane (a psychopathic nightclub comic/mimic, a black baseball player and exhibitionist, a stereotypic gay) try to hide from the police in a girls’ reformatory, but when they attempt to take advantage of the residents the gals use karate (!) to turn the tables.  It’s a classic “drive-in film” scenario, and the writers use it to good advantage by cramming in references to Public Enemy, Bonnie and Clyde, Bette Davis and more.

While the title characters stand out in a very literal sense, this is really the convicts’ story. Stephen Stucker (best known as Johnny in the Airplane films) camps his role as the gay to the upper stratosphere and Michael Pataki does several bad imitations, while really looking like a demented Rich Little.  However, Bob Minor’s role as the black is the film’s main drawback.  His sexual hunger is a bad racist cliché, although a scene in the school cafeteria gives him a good comeback line.

The film was made in 1974, yet aside from hairstyles and references to “male chauvinist pigs” it holds up well, both as straight soft adult fare and comedy.  Delinquent School Girls may well be the quintessential “roadhouse flick.”