Dirty O'Neil, Nympho-Maniac Cop

If you are not a fan of 1970s sexploitation, drive-in fare...stop reading now.  For the other 99% of this audience, let us examine 1974's "Dirty O'Neil."  Highly offensive in nature, especially if taken seriously, one might criticize this work for trivializing rape, police brutality, sex with high-schoolers, and women professionals.  Premiering at drive-in theaters at the height of the now defunct woman's lib movement, "Dirty O'Neil" may have been a welcomed diversion in a society just looking to be offended.  If remade today, "Dirty O'Neil" would feature a woman as the protagonist, and would offend no one.

Jimmy O'Neil (Morgan Paull) is a patrol cop in Newhall, California.  Not a big town, but every woman in it is stunning and quick to get naked.  O'Neil is irresistible to females and he knows it.  He is also the luckiest cop alive, as every time he responds to a fender bender (see photo above) or pulls over a speeder, the offender just happens to be a sex-starved young lady.  During the course of this film, he gets down and dirty with a stripper, a diner waitress, a nurse, a rock-band groupie, a girls high school basketball team, the Norwegian trophy wife (see bottom photo) of a local judge, and a speeder.  His two main paramours are a nurse (and rival basketball coach) named Lisa (Pat Anderson) and the diner's waitress, Ruby (Jeane Manson, see photo below).  Both women wear very short dresses and seem to be missing undergarments.

The above paragraph captures the bulk of this film, but evil does lurk in the shadows.  Three thugs, fresh from robbing a gas station and murdering the attendant show up in Newhall.  One night, as Ruby leaves the diner, these fiends grab her and brutally gang rape her.  When Ruby finally does tell Jimmy about the attack he asks her why she did not tell him before.  Ruby confides to him that she did not look at him as a real cop.  Devastated by this assessment, Jimmy's libido falls through the floor.  Unable to live up to the expectations of Newhall's fare nymphs, Jimmy questions his self worth.  Depressed, Jimmy contemplates leaving law enforcement and Newhall.  Is there a path to Jimmy's salvation?  Yes!  As the three thugs seek another episode with Ruby, Jimmy is intent on protecting and serving what is left of Ruby's virtue.

Comedic, violent, and erotic.  Need I say more.  The acting is a lot better than most films of this genre.  Pat Anderson ("Fly Me") is very appealing in a very naughty nurse outfit.  Morgan Paull ("Patton" and "Blade Runner") as O'Neil is also superb.  This film also has a big time director, Lewis Teague ("Cujo" and "Alligator").  If you have a proclivity toward being offended, hopefully you haven't read as far as this sentence.  For guilty pleasure, "Dirty O'Neil" is available on Netflix.