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Superchick (1973)

Superchick poster
Directed by
Ed Forsyth
Genre
exploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
R
Rating
3.5 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A female karate expert takes on a group of hijackers on an airplane. She uses her martial arts training to stop them and save the passengers.

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What happens

Superchick is a 1973 American action comedy exploitation film directed by Ed Forsyth and starring Joyce Jillson, Louis Quinn, Thomas Reardon, Tony Young, and Timothy Wayne Brown. The film was released by Crown International Pictures in September 1973. The film has the typical themes of a martial arts film. A female martial artist, trained in karate, has to stop an aircraft hijacking. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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