The Doll Squad

1973

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 30% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 30% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.4/10 10 1220 1.2K

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Plot summary

After a terrorist plot to sabotage a Cape Canaveral space mission is discovered, a squad of attractive and lethal spies have to locate the culprits. On their mission, they use a wide range of secret weapons.

Director

Ted V. Mikels Photo
Ted V. Mikels

Top cast

Michael Ansara Photo
Michael Ansara as Eamon O'Reilly
Tura Satana Photo
Tura Satana as Lavelle Sumara
Francine York Photo
Francine York as Sabrina Kincaid
Judith McConnell Photo
Judith McConnell as Elizabeth White
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840.53 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 2
1.52 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by funkyfry 4 / 10

Mostly boring, sometimes inspiring cheapie

Director Mikels claims this was the inspiration for "Charlie's Angels." Maybe so or maybe not, but this film turns out to be a fairly standard 3 girl/4 girl formula exploitation acioner. Some funny scenes, like the exploding enemy agents. Satana is wasted in a supporting role. This one probably satisfied the drive in crowd in 1973, but it doesn't have too much to recommend it now, even to fans (like me) of this stuff, because it's a bit too clunky.
Reviewed by ferbs54 3 / 10

I'm Ready For The Couch

Perhaps it would take a trained psychotherapist to figure out why I persist in renting out movies by director/producer Ted V. Mikels, after so many repeated disappointments. From bad ("Blood Orgy of the She Devils") to worse ("The Corpse Grinders"), from rock bottom ("The Astro-Zombies") to repugnant ("The Worm Eaters"), the man has let me down time and again. Yet I had to go take a look at his 1973 offering, "The Doll Squad," despite all that, AND despite the fact that I've never been a fan of the overrated '70s TV phenomenon "Charlie's Angels," which this flick supposedly served as inspiration for. Well, the good news is that this Mikels effort may be marginally better than those others; the bad news is that, well, this is still a Mikels film, to which he brings his patented...what's the opposite of "touch of gold"? Touch of crap? The story here concerns an ex-government agent, played by Michael Ansara, who's been blowing up U.S. rockets and is threatening the world with bubonic plague, and the efforts of Doll Squad leader Sabrina (Kincaid, not Duncan) and her kick-ass babes to stop him cold. Though the film's first 15 minutes or so, featuring the gruesome murders of two of the Dolls, are promising, the picture quickly deteriorates into the typical Mikels mishmash of lousy direction, poor editing and awful FX. Though the Dolls are pretty fierce in action, more than willing to shoot their foes in the back or when they're already unconscious, most of that action is confined to murky, hard-to-follow gunplay. Francine York, it must be allowed, is pretty good as the head Doll, and quite a package to look at, as is everyone's favorite pussycat, Tura Satana. A larger budget and a more accomplished filmmaker might have been able to salvage what on paper must have seemed a pretty reasonable entertainment. As it is, if I ever rent out another Ted V. Mikels movie, someone, please, institutionalize me!!!
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