''C.C. and Company'' is a 1970 American biker film directed by Seymour Robbie. It starred

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as biker C.C. Ryder,

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as fashion journalist Ann, and William Smith as Moon, the leader of the fictitious outlaw biker club the "Heads Company". The film also features singer Wayne Cochran and his band The C.C. Riders.

Plot

C.C. Ryder falls in with a biker gang in the desert, and then rescues Ann from trouble with the same gang. There next occurs a

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race tied in with a fashion shoot. The Heads disrupt the event, but C.C. Ryder enters the race to gain Ann's favor. This puts him in conflict with Moon. When Ryder wins the race and leaves with his award money the gang kidnaps Ann, and Ryder must ride back to save her.

Cast

as C. C. Ryder *

as Ann McCalley * William Smith as Moon * Jennifer Billingsley as Pom Pom * Mike Battle as Rabbit * Greg Mullavey as Lizard * Teda Bracci as Pig * Don Chastain as Eddie Ellis *

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as Crow *

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as Captain Midnight * Keva Kelly as Tandalaya * Jackie Rohr as Zit-Zit * Robert Keyworth as Charlie Hopkins * Alan Pappe as Photographer * Ned Wertimer as Motorcycle salesman * Wayne Cochran as himself and his band

Reception

Reviews were mostly negative. It was described by ''

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'' reviewer

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as "the picture to name when someone asks you to recommend 'a good bad movie.: In his ''

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'' review,

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, who supplied it with no stars, felt it was "hateful", adding: The film was also blasted by the Cleveland Press' Tony Mastroianni: ''Filmink'' called it a "remarkably poor vehicle for Ann-Margret "considering it was written by her husband". The film's trailer is played during a scene in a movie theater in

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's 2019 film ''

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''. (This constitutes an anachronism, as Tarantino's film is set in February 1969, and ''C.C. and Company'' was not released until October 1970.)

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