DAMAGED GOODS/THE HARD ROAD

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• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Clean-cut Jim and good-girl Judy can’t wait to graduate high school and get married. But when Judy’s out of town, Jim and his pals take in the sleazy charms of a strip club where Jim loses his virginity to a young hooker working the bar. Oops. Judy hears the details at a weenie roast and immediately cancels their wedding plans, whereupon bad-girl Kathy Promptly pounces on Jim: 'love me! Love me!' But — uh oh — Jim thinks he’s 'caught something' which his doctor confirms is nothing less than syphilis! Worse, the doc makes Jim watch a scary little film on the horrors of venereal disease.... Propelled by music from The Ventures, DAMAGED GOODS successfully merges the wholesome world of Kennedy-era kids with those sordid little sores that just won’t heal!; ; But it’s all just a warm-up for our second berserk feature in which a teenage girl drowns in cheap sex and dangerous drugs while stumbling down THE HARD ROAD! After giving up her baby for adoption, 17-year-old Pam realizes 'she can never be a kid again,' so embarks on a career as a Hollywood tramp. She also climbs a billboard while high on grass, hooks up with hippies, shacks up with a junkie named Jimmy, and gets 'a serious communicable disease.' But when Jimmy is busted and freaks out in jail, Pam drops acid and makes like an airplane in the middle of a highway.... Wow. Not only is THE HARD ROAD an incredible late-sixties time capsule, but ten exploitation films rolled into one!; ; And remember: Tonight, Romance! Tomorrow, Regret!
• Runtime: 2:41
• Media Format: Movie