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Because he is not getting a certain microfilm from the gouvernment,
someone is blasting NASA rockets out of the sky - and in their
desperation, Senator Stockwell (John Carter) and Secret Service boss
Connelly (Anthony Eisley) turn to Sabrina Kincaid (Francine York) and her
gang of operatives (Tura Satana, Jean London, Leigh Christian, Sherri
Vernon, Bret Zeller, Carol Terry, Judith McConnell'), the Doll Squad - a
collection of women from all walks of life from stripper to
psychotherapist -, for help.
Soon enough, Sabrina has identified the mole inside the Senator's
office, of all people his own secretary (Lillian Garrett), has identified
the main villain as Eamon (Michael Ansara), Sabrina's own ex-lover, and
has gotten informations about Eamon's current whereabouts from his current
lover, Maria (Lisa Todd), who was (unsuccessfully) posing as a member of
the Doll Squad.
Soon, the girls are off to Eamon's island hide-out, where we are
treated to the usual sequence of captures and escapes and big shoot-outs.
Eventually, Sabrina meets Eamon again, and he reveals to her his plans for
world domination: letting plague infected mice loose on all major cities
to produce maximum chaos (why he needed a certain microfilm from the
gouvernment for it is never explained and is most certainly nothing more
than a plothole). But Eamon has still feelings for Sabrina, so he offers
her to rule the world as his queen ... and somehow this is his downfall as
Sabrina uses all her seductive female charms to lead him into her deadly
trap ...
Then the Doll Squad 8or whats left of them) blow up Eamon's
headquarters including the bulbonic plague virus and the rats and
everything, and the world is saved once more.
To be quite blunt, The Doll Squad is not a good film, it's a
cheap actioner that focusses more on sensationalism than on plausibility,
that features too many plotholes to count and that's a bit too cheap for
the story's demands ... at least that's one way to look at it. On the
other hand, The Doll Squad can also be regarded as a typical guilty
pleasure, a silly film about a bunch of attractive girls (who are in
bikinis a lot) keeping a baddie from conquering the world, full of
over-the-top ideas (from a worldwide epidemic of bulbonic plague to
explosives blwing up people from the inside) and delightfully cheap
special effects.
So yeah, it might be a bad film ... but also a fun ride, provided that
trashy action movies are your cup of tea.
By the way, in later years Ted V.Mikels claimed that the popular
TV-series Charlie's Angels (1976 - 1981) was a rip off of Doll
Squad - which stands to dispute: in some ways, the film and the series
are similar (and equally brainless), but in all, the similarities are
rather fleeting ...
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