RITA CONDE & IRIS FLORES/RIDE THE PINK HORSE W/ WANDA HENDRIX

Three of the prettiest Spanish girls but two are pure Spanish: from the middle and right are Rita Conde and Iris Flores; one was supposedly propositioned by political male slut JFK while the other worked her whole life, appearing as a hotel maid in the Malcolm McDowell science-fiction romance TIME AFTER TIME while the prettiest, Wanda Hendrix, is treated as if she were a homely teenager in Robert Montgomery's RIDE THE PINK HORSE...

One two of these hotties could be considered somewhat molls though despite the fact they only help/aid the main character, trying to find the mobster who killed his buddy...

That's Rita and Iris, who play street walkers in the dusty New Mexico town where Wanda is trying to save Montgomery from an impending doom, as happens in many a Noir...

VIRGINIA MAYO/WHITE HEAT

Her most famous role in WHITE HEAT as James Cagney's moll, who'd "look good in a shower curtain," this post is to simply say, happy birthday to Virginia Mayo, our patron angel...

SALLY FIELD/BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Sally Field had done SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT two years earlier and proved for audiences she could join a leading man in being a free-spirited smarty-pants, so perhaps that was the reason she was hired for what's considered one of the very worst sequels of all time, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE...

As she joins crooked good guy Michael Caine and his more friendly cohort Karl Malden in salvaging the cinema-famous (or infamous) sunken ship, taking place minutes after the rescue helicopter at the end of the original as it flies off in the beginning of the followup. But here, nicknamed "Monkey" wherein her BANDIT moniker was "Frog," Sally is totally misplaced. While her spunky zingers hurled at Burt Reynolds sort of worked, she has no chemistry with Michael Caine, and seems only meant for comic relief. But, other than her famous 1960's sitcoms, GIDGET and THE FLYING NUN, she wasn't... funny. Making this a stinker and a sinker both, while her perpetual goofiness is worse than a ship-turning storm, or, for that matter, an iceberg.

ALI MACGRAW VS. STELLA STEVENS/THE GETAWAY

ALI MACGRAW never did it for me and her acting here seems so wooden I expect her gangster bank robbing convict or rather ex-convict husband Steve McQueen to get splinters when he plants a kiss on her, but it's a great movie that rocks and rolls and lots of guns and slow-motion deaths, always expected of Sam Peckinpah, bloody as he's called, nicknamed for letting the red stuff spill and Ali's moll was supposed to be played by STELLA STEVENS, who was the hooker in Peck's film THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE and she was all set for it, after all you need a toughie to stand up to McQueen who, as the character "Doc" gives his gal a lotta shit 'cause she has to sleep with a kingpin (Ben Johnson) in order to free him from an endless prison sentence - so I figure Stevens was probably in Peck's mind as the perfect counter but what happens is McQueen, according to Stevens, looked at her during the audition and said "You're competition", so what Steve wants goes, and producer Robert Evans (not a producer of this film but a producer) got his girlfriend Macgraw, who hadn't done nothing good since LOVE STORY (which frankly ain't even good), to co-star with McQueen and so eventually Stevens must've been laughing her ass off when Evan's lost MacGraw to McQueen as a real life romance blossomed on set and they were married and - I guess there was probably more love between the actors than the characters who in THE GETAWAY bicker on end and I can also mention Sally Struthers who's kinda a moll to Al Lettieri but let's hold that for anudder post...

KAREN BLACK/THE OUTFIT

KAREN BLACK in an obscure seventies gangster film THE OUTFIT isn't quite a gangster film but involves bank robbers Robert Duvall who's just outta prison and partner Joe Don Baker and Karen Black, the dizzy gal from FIVE EASY PIECES and star of so many other great films, some bad, is the MOLL and not so tough as she is determined, and won't let her man get the best of her - sure he loves her but wants to stuff her in the backseat (as he does) and all three go from thug to thug stealing money as revenge for being ripped off and anyhow she's a good moll in it - nice to see her with a gun and sexy and tough and gritty and sensitive too but mostly makes her dude feel guilty that he's pleased with stealin' so as much as I love Black she kinda gits inna way here but it's Karen Black so who'm I to complain?

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