Review of The Swinging Cheerleaders

THE SWINGING CHEERLEADERS is something of a tame enterprise for exploitation director Jack Hill, best known for his cult and gang culture movies. This one's more of a high school sex comedy, with a female reporter going undercover in a cheerleading team in order to uncover some murky corruption involving those at the top. It's mostly an excuse for lots of sex talk and scenarios involving relationships and characters bedding one another. Tragic starlet Cheryl 'Rainbeaux' Smith has a good if minor part as a virginal cheerleader while the unknown Jo Johnston - for whom this was the sole acting credit - is excellent as the undercover protagonist. There's not much in the way of action or violence, except at the climax, but the requisite nudity and sleazy characters keep it mildly entertaining.