Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976) User Reviews (43)

Lynda plus Marjoe!

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 1 August 2019]

Mark Lester's IMDB list is filled with drive-in and VHS era gold. There's Steel Arena, Truck Stop Women, Roller Boogie (with Linda Blair, of course), Class of 1984 and it's kinda/sorta spiritual sequel Class of 1999, Firestarter, Commando and Showdown in Little Tokyo.

This American Internation Pictures release was written by Vernon Zimmerman, who has gifted us with just as many demented films as Lester. You can thank him for Teen Witch - Top That! - as well as Fade to Black and Unholy Rollers.

Together, these two titans of, well, movies that only I love joined up to make a modern Bonnie and Clyde redneck film starring former child minister Marjoe Gortner and future Wonder Woman Lynda Carter.

Young country singer and dreamer Bobbie Jo Baker (Carter) runs away from her job as a carhop to ride around in a Ford Mustang with Lyle Wheeler (Gortner), who fancies himself the modern-day Billy the Kid. Gortner was the second choice for the lead after Sylvester Stallone backed out, which would have made the Lyle role seem much more menacing.

Belinda Balaski, who is in nearly every Joe Dante movie, shows up, as does Peggy Stewart (she's an actress from the cowboy era who was also in the redneck film Black Oak Conspiracy) and Gerrit Graham, who was Beef in Phantom of the Paradise and also made appearances in TerrorVision and Chopping Mall.

You should watch this movie to see Marjoe do mushrooms, but for many, there's a major other reason to see this movie, called out on the poster. If only they had spelled Lynda Carter's name correctly...

Early HBO Draw

[DKosty123 · 4/10 · 17 July 2009]

When Home Box Office was in it's early days movies like this one & Outlaw Blues were among the films used to try to draw viewers. The main draw to this one was to see Linda Carter (Wonder Woman) out of that curve hugging outfit with her chest free to grace the screen. She certainly does that here.

This is one of the films on HBO then which made me think that the "B" Hollywood films were alive & well in the 1970's. It was amazing how successful they were promoting this one. This film wets the whistle for seeing Ms. Carter do an X rated feature though I don't think she ever did one.

Put your brain away and enjoy the natural assets on display here, don't take the plot too seriously of you will lose your perspective.

bobbie jo and the outlaw

[mossgrymk · 4/10 · 7 February 2021]

Does a good job of showing why the Marjoe phenomenon was so brief and the Lynda Carter craze more ample.

30 years later, still a drive-in classic!

[Bmoviedude61 · 19 June 2007]

Lynda was an awesome physical specimen in her prime, as this movie captures. Good action flick, good nudity, good 1970s drive-in movie. Lynda is not back in emoting, certainly not as wooden as she was in the first Wonder Woman episodes. Marjoe Goertner is adequate, how he starred in Earthquake latter on is beyond me. And Lynda's sidekick girlfriend is CUTE. It's got the 1970s look from the film stock they used, which is cool. Its sad how gravity has taken a toll on Lynda's awesome physique. Pop in this DVD, watch her undress and it's 1976 all over again. And that's a good thing, as far as Lynda's bod is concerned.

Pretty bad movie

[randallbratton · 2/10 · 8 June 2006]

Naturally, everyone has different tastes, and some people do like the movie - but in my opinion it was just another pointless movie about a bunch of bank robbers. I assume many people will watch it just to see Lynda Carter topless, but in today's world where porn sites pop up on computers all the time even when they are not wanted, there is no novelty in seeing a topless woman in a love scene - except that it's a celebrity and people are into that. A previous user (Ron) posted a message that the two topless scenes were really just the same film clip edited twice into the movie in two different scenes. However, he was mistaken. There were two very similar love scenes - in both scenes, they are making love on the same blanket, and in roughly the same positions and camera angles. It is almost like watching the same scene twice. But they did film it twice, and not a single frame was duplicated in both scenes.

Well worth the watch!

[clintsemail70 · 7/10 · 29 March 2019]

Even if just for the classic cars and how truly gorgeous Lynda Carter is!

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw does show Lynda Carter naked but not the way I wanted...

[tavm · 3/10 · 26 September 2009]

When I found out this movie was on fancast.com and knowing about it's reputation of having Ms. Lynda Carter topless, I had to watch this right away. While we do see her having sex with Marjoe Gortner twice and in a skinny dipping scene and she does undress in front of her mother, not once does she display both in front on screen at the same time in all its glory. Needless to say, I was very disappointed! And the story itself, about outlaws on the run with Lynda willingly going along for the ride, is pretty exciting in a trashy kind of way for a while but then gets too repetitiously redundant by the end. In other words, I don't regret watching this, but I don't think I want to see this again. Oh, and that was a nice song Ms. Carter sang.

An escape movie an outlaw adventure a B movie treat that shows some Lynda Carter skin!

[blanbrn · 7/10 · 4 April 2016]

Always been a fan of the beautiful and attractive Lynda Carter from seeing her as a little boy I thought see was stunning as "Wonder Woman" and it's always nice to look back and watch her in an older film even if it is a B type like "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw" made in 1976 just as Lynda was starting her fame as "Wonder Women" this picture even included many hot scenes of Carter topless an eye candy treat for any Lynda fan! And the plot is a little silly and daring still this picture entertains for a B type movie.

The movie centers around two young up and coming people first Bobbie Jo(Carter) as a mom's girl who's a drive-in waitress who hopes to be a country music singer now enter Lyle Wheeler(Marjoe Gortner)a quick draw gun expert who inspires to be a Billy the Kid type. Once upon chance meeting the two form a bond and a passion for an adventure a road journey that takes them thru a swing of many U.S. western states. Thru the subplot of hot passion and sex between them(as this is where you see the topless breast scenes of Lynda Carter)the film turns into a crime saga a drama of modern day bandits from bank robberies and gunfight and shootout's it's like a new "Bonnie and Clyde" is born! Overall nice little adventure escape film that's blended like an old western drama with modern day passion and plenty of eye candy treat fun in the form of the beautiful Lynda Carter.

Glints Of Good Work

[boblipton · 5/10 · 23 January 2021]

Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter hook up together and turn to crime with best friends Jesse Vint and Merrie Lynn Ross in this modern-day, dress-down BONNIE AND CLYDE.

It's a thoughtless rehash, but there are some good points, particularly the cinematography, which seems to owe more to Look Magazine than the movies. Gortner comes alive for a moment during a funeral scene, Miss Carter is young a pretty in her reaction shots. Contrariwise, there's a lot of sloppiness in the direction, like kids unconcernedly bicycling in and out of the scene of a gun battle. Overall, it's an odd mix of competence, interesting ideas that don't quite work, and professionalism for the grind house circuit.

Good cast but little else.

[preppy-3 · 6/10 · 17 July 2021]

Bobbie Jo (a young Lynda Carter) is a car hop in a small town who's bored and unfulfilled. Then she meets drifter Lyle (Marjoe Gortner) and falls in love. They run away together and it leads to car chases, murder and shoot-outs.

OK exploitation film. The cast is attractive (and Carter bares her breast a few times), there's plenty of car chases and a few bloody murders here and there. Still I was bored. The film did the same thing again and again and I got bored. Utterly predictable ending too. So it had all the right elements but didn't work.

Reminiscent of the Style of Movies During This Time-Period

[Uriah43 · 5/10 · 12 July 2014]

"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.

Holds Up Surprisingly Well

[bababear · 8/10 · 2 January 2010]

I'd seen this on cable many years ago, and watched it on hulu.com this afternoon. It's really a good little piece of work.

There's nothing new in the story. A bored, restless young woman in a dead end job in a small town hooks up with a smooth talking young man. Before she realizes it she, her friend, and her sister and the sister's boyfriend are all in over their heads because the men are obsessed with the wild west fantasy and see themselves as gunslingers. Everyone is firing real bullets, though, and soon it's not any fun.

The work has a ton of antecedents. BONNIE AND CLYDE, obviously. Dozens of Warner Brothers movies from the 1930's and 1940's. Goddard's New Wave film BREATHLESS. And, more than anything else, Jack Kerouac's novel ON THE ROAD.

These people spend the bulk of their time in vehicles, rushing toward and/or away from something. Thankfully, the film's producers didn't have the money to build elaborate sets so they filmed in dusty little towns in New Mexico, using actual locations and probably hiring local actors, too.

And Lynda Carter. Good Lord, what a beauty. No wonder she was cast to play AVA GARDNER in a filmed biography. Those eyes...and she has nude scenes one, too: now that she's about to turn sixty, I'd love to see her reaction watching this one again.

A young lady named Belinda Balanski plays her friend, and she's also a beauty, also a fine young actress, and also topless. She never became a big star but is a favorite of director Joe Dante (THE HOWLING, GREMLINS) so she's worked steadily over the years. Still, she never achieved her potential. Pity.

Lots of solid character actors fill out the smaller roles. And, it being the seventies there's some amazing facial hair sported by the male supporting cast.

Check this one out. You might be surprised how much you enjoy it.

Nice basic bank robber story

[pbenen · 7/10 · 24 January 2021]

Lynda was quite the looker, as was Merrie Lynn Ross. cinematography and locations were also good. Funny that this 1976 middle of the road movie is better than 80% of Netflix films.

Goofy

[oklahomaman5 · 3/10 · 29 January 2021]

If it hadn't had been for the nudity it wouldn't have even got the 3 stars I gave it.

Pepino is correct, sir!

[rongmtek · 22 June 2004]

This movie was endlessly played on cable in the early days of CINEMAX, along with some rather distastefully misogynistic gore-fests. CINEMAX cornered the market on flicks where women got burned with cigars and urinated on (very graphically). But I digress. The producers apparently could only convince Ms. Carter to bare her impressive chest but once. So- they edited in the exact same scene TWICE! Once in the first half, and again in the second half of the movie! Double your pleasure indeed. More like quadruple. But I must say that almost 30 years later I remember them vividly, and they were spectacular.

Bobbie Jo

[aldo-49527 · 3/10 · 22 July 2021]

More than ten years after Arthur Penn directed the classic Bonnie and Clyde, B-movie director Mark L. Lester took a stab at a variation of the story with buxom Lynda Carter being the main attraction.

Penn's film was a marvel of character depth and almost lyrical violence. Lester's offers none of that. It tries, but fails.

There are plenty of robberies and shoot-outs with a bumbling group of law enforcement agents in Bobbie Jo. And, there's an attempt to add some backstory to Carter's title character.

But, it's all superficial. Carter's character in fact feels underdeveloped and her co-star, Marjoe Gortner, is given nothing to work with other than sex scenes and shootouts.

B.J. is a drab drive-in restaurant waitress until she meets Lyle and learns . . .

[cricket30 · 7/10 · 23 January 2021]

. . . to fire a military-style assault rifle. Once she becomes a skilled marks-woman, no one pushes Bobbie Jo around. Whether it's gun shop clerks, bank branch managers or sheriff's deputies, they're all mowed down by this wonder woman's lead if they have the temerity to cross her the wrong way. Bobbie Jo becomes a brash, bold self-confident Woman of the World with a shooting iron in her tool kit. After taking years of abuse from disgruntled fast food patrons, this Texas Terror makes her claim to fame through somewhat indiscriminate gun play. Most viewers may conclude that many lives could have been saved during the saga of BOBBIE JO AND THE OUTLAW if she and her gang could have augmented their meager wages with a government stipend insuring their ability to exercise their Second Amendment Rights by underwriting the purchase of at least a modest arsenal and plenty of ammo. Consequently, after enjoying BOBBIE JO remember to support your local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps).

Bobbie Jo and the Outcast.

[anaconda-40658 · 3/10 · 13 January 2016]

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976): Dir: Mark L. Lester / Cast: Marjoe Gortner, Lynda Carter, Jesse Vint, Merrie Lynn Ross, Belinda Balaski: Dreadful Bonnie and Clyde clone about the extremes one may go to obtain notoriety. Marjoe Gortner plays Lyle Wheeler, a Billy the Kid clone who has nowhere near the charm of Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde. He goes out of his way to engage in cop chases and steal cars. Lynda Carter plays Bobbie Jo, a waitress who desires to be a country singer. Unfortunately she gets involved with this whack job and is joining him in robbing banks. Carter is gorgeous but lacks the intensity of Faye Dunaway. They are eventually joined by another couple who have nothing better to do with their time. One of them, Pearl, played by the fetching Merrie Lynn Ross is Bobbie Jo's sister and has about the same amount of common sense. Belinda Balaski as Essie is Bobbie Jo's co-worker at the diner. Balaski is a striking female but done up her in glasses and overalls so to avoid competing with Carter. She is an innocent caught up in a bad crowd where consequences loom. Bonnie and Clyde is better written and certainly better produced. Mark L. Lester films in Mexico and cannot even make that look enticing. There is too much nonsense especially with the stupidest police force in film history. In the end this film should be buried in a deep hole in Mexico. Score: 3 ½ / 10

Car chases check, nudity check, C&W song check, bad acting check.

[merklekranz · 6/10 · 6 March 2020]

Fast moving, somewhat unpredictable, outlaws on the run that works because of the enthusiastic cast. Although the acting is what you would expect from an "American International" drive in flick, things move along quick enough to rush over the imperfections. The movie seems to specialize in "skinny dipping" where miraculous bathing suits appear from nowhere. Amazing! The New Mexico scenery is fully exploited as is the audience with the double take Lynda Carter nude scene. No one seems to complain however. "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw will never be confused with "Bonnie and Clyde", but it was never intended to compete on that level. Instead it is aimed squarely at the "passion pits" in your local drive in, where it hit's a bullseye. - MERK

If AM 70s radio were a movie...

[slingcraze · 3/10 · 5 June 2021]

Looking over the reviews here in chronological order, the reviewers from the early 2000s liked it a lot, even liked the acting and direction. I have no idea what those folks were watching because this flick was straight trash. I'm giving it 3 stars just for the time travel trip. I was a child in these years and love the nostalgia of watching cars and clothes and music from years that I have little memory of. I was old enough to remember Wonder Woman, though at the time I wasn't a fan (more into Farrah). But seeing Lynda Carter in this movie gave me a newfound respect for how off the charts sexy she was. That costume didn't really do her justice the way this movie did. And the third star goes to the actress who played the hanger-on character. She was introduced as the frumpy, dowdy, friend of Carter's. But seeing her little perky tits in the lake doing mushrooms, she stole the show. Never underestimate the "friend of the hot chick". She was sexier than Lynda's sister in the movie, who I'm sure the producers had high hopes for. But other than that, this movie was dumb. How many times can the cops surround the gang and they still escape? The gang leader was a true sociopath, but not in a way that gave any meaning to his story arc. He's not an anti- hero, he's just a bad guy from the start. Too many plot holes to count, but I understand, that's not what anyone who watched this back in the day was interested in. Cheers to Lynda Carter and perky little Ms. Balinski. And to 1976.

A white trash movie with heart.

[mark.waltz · 6/10 · 26 November 2023]

When one of their gang is killed in a shootout, the four remaining young criminals stop to ponder her life as they bury her in the wilderness, sentimental music playing in the background. The original outlaw is Marjoe Gortner, a long forgotten cult actor once the subject of a documentary and supporting player in various movies of the 70's and TV shows into the 80's. He's joined by the future Wonder Woman, the beautiful Lynda Carter, and later by her sister Merrie Lynn Ross, her boyfriend Jesse Vint and the sweet but tragic Belinda Balaski.

Definitely made as an anti-establishment commentary on the dissatisfaction of young people, this is actually much better than I expected, and as vile as their crimes are, there's the guilt ridden hope that the viewer has in hoping they get away with everything. There were many others of this genre in the turbulent 70's, but often they didn't have good scripts, decent performances or above average production values. This has all of thar, as well as fascinating minor characters played by non-actors who have seemed to have been pulled of the street.

Typical 70s American International anti-establishment caper

[movieswithgreg · 4/10 · 23 January 2021]

This is just another of a popular drive-in genre of the 1970s -- low-budget anti-establishment anti-hero outlaw drama by American International studios, known for cheapo horror and outlaw biker flicks. It's known for cheesy dialogue, forced plot situations, flimsy acting, and obligatory nudity and illegal drgu use.

Superhero turned badgirl

[knockers · 8/10 · 12 October 2000]

Actually, this came out before her stint in the Wonder Woman television show. This movie is actually quite entertaining, especially if you enjoy seeing one of the most beautiful women to grace the planet everywhere in four nude scenes. Lynda Carter simply has one of the greatest, most voluptuous bodies that I have ever seen, and that combined with her stunning eyes and smile makes the movie all the more enjoyable. It is about a good girl who gets mixed up with a bad guy. Marjoe doesn't really want to be a troublemaker, but trouble always seems to follow him. Bobbi Jo gets caught up in all of this, and they eventually are forced to run from the law. Very good action from one of the best racks ever.

Better than it Should be

[dwdwdw1 · 6/10 · 2 July 2022]

If you watch this film from the POV of a soft core porn, it's pretty dang good. Decent car chases, wacky gun fights, and LYNDA LYNDA LYNDA!

Some quality photography!

And while Lynda proves the "thespian" of the cast, the script is interestingly bad - and surprisingly funny!

Definitely NOT a waste of 90 minutes but you may find yourselves hungry for a bowl of Crunchberries!

...for some strange reason 🤔

pre-WW exploitation

[SnoopyStyle · 5/10 · 23 January 2021]

Lyle Wheeler (Marjoe Gortner) has a fast car and is on the run from the law. Bobbie Jo Baker (Lynda Carter) is desperate to get away from her dead-end job and her overbearing mother. She hops into his car without knowing the first thing about him. They go on a road trip to nowhere.

This is noteworthy for being Lynda Carter's theatrical debut. I'm sure that she filmed this before getting the Wonder Woman gig. The film was released a few months after the TV show's debut. It's an exploitation film. It's car chases, tits, and guns. Carter's biggest assets remain the two up front and her blue blue eyes. I don't see anything worthwhile in here for the most part other than a pre-WW Lynda Carter doing some wild stuff.