Malibu Express
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| Directed by | Andy Sidaris |
| Produced by | Andy Sidaris |
| Written by | Andy Sidaris |
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Darby Hinton Sybil Danning Lynda Wiesmeier Lori Sutton Art Metrano |
| Music by | Henry Strzelecki |
| Cinematography | Howard Wexler |
| Edited by | Craig Stewart Howard Wexler |
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Malibu Bay Films
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| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Malibu Express is a 1985 American action/adventure film starring Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning, Lori Sutton, and Art Metrano. It was directed, written, and produced by Andy Sidaris. The film features 1980s Playboy Playmates Kimberly McArthur, Barbara Edwards, Lorraine Michaels, and Lynda Wiesmeier in its cast, as well. In it, Danning "cinched her image as B-budget bad girl".Regis and Joy Philbin cameo as talk show hosts.
Espionage threatens the security of American Computer Technology and a skirt-chasing private investigator is assigned by federal intelligence agencies to root out the spies among the rich, oversexed socialites unknowingly supporting them.
A wealthy playboy/private-investigator named Cody Abilene is hired by a government intelligence operative to investigate a lead into who is selling computer technology to the Russians. While investigating rich socialites, amorous naked vixens, an ex-con with a penchant for blackmail, and keeping it all from his sexy lady cop friend Beverly Mcafee, Cody puts himself in the crosshairs of the traitorous tech-spies who will gladly kill to stay in business. The scope of the conspiracy is revealed after Cody and Beverly make love at a suspect's beachhouse, only to find a pair of hitmen gunning for them as they get dressed. Gunplay, car chases, and races ensue.
Malibu Express is described as a "routine erotic spy tale" by Eleanor Mannikka of All Movie Guide. The Video Movie Guide 2001 rated the movie with a single "turkey", amazed that the movie got an "R" rating, "since it's clearly soft porn."TV Guide gave the film two stars. Barbara Edwards' appearance in the hero's shower is cited as "one of the hottest topless lesbian shower scenes in the long and hot tradition of lesbian shower scenes."
The film was first released in March 1985, then on DVD in 2002. It then appeared in two DVD collections, Andy Sidaris Collection, Vol. 1 (of six discs) in 2003, and Triple B Collection, Vol. 1 in 2005.
The material from the film was reworked from a previous Sidaris film, Stacey (1973). The role of Stacey Hanson (Anne Randall) was divided into two new characters: private detective protagonist Cody Abilene (Darby Hinton) and his girlfriend June Khnockers (Lynda Wiesmeier).
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