Take an Easy Ride – 1976 | 44 mins | Drama | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Take an Easy Ride was a short film directed by Kenneth Rowles, whose chaotic documentary styles and indifference to narrative render it all but avant-garde. The series of cautionary tales concerning hitch-hikers combines stock footage, dramatisations, flashback reconstructions and sexploitation. The exploitive stories are narrated in the style of a public information film and involve stories that illustrate the ‘Russian Roulette’ gamble of hitchhiking; rape, swinging threesomes, murder, drugs and runaway teens. The film was originally intended for broadcast as a public information film, but Rowles was advised that if he wished to recoup his investment he should sex up the story and show it in the sleazy Soho theatres.