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Good movie but grossly overrated

Brilliant and touching

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

If you see this film today, it probably will make you wonder if everyone associated with the film was crazy. Well, I would say that they were crazy brilliant, as in the late 60s and early 70s, cheap, crappy and practically plot less biker films made a fortune. After all, the films were mostly filled with a lot of non-actors--mostly hippies and biker types the studios found driving the highways out west. Add to that no real need to pay for interesting scripts (apart from "Easy Rider" which really is NOT a biker film...or at least a biker gang film)...and you have a recipe for success. That is why films like "Satan's Sadists", "Werewolves on Wheels" and "C.C. and Company were made...because these ridiculous films made money.When the film begins, you are introduced to C.C. (Joe Namath). He steals food and bikes but he's the 'nice' biker gang member...which you soon see when a couple of his fellow club members try to rape a woman (Ann-Margret). But C.C. is a nice...and stops them. From then on, things are sour between him and the head of the gang (William Smith--who also produced and wrote the film). Even when C.C. wins some bike races and should become a hero, the gang treats him badly and in the dead of night he splits. Is this the end of the gang and C.C.? What do you think?The actual plot of this film really only becomes evident late in the film (about the last 20 minutes) and other than that it's mostly women taking off their clothes and bikers riding about and Namath wooing Ann-Margret. Not a horrible movie (at least you get to see her naked) and the music is simply amazing! But it's also a silly and inconsequential little curio that will make folks say "who's that Joe Namath guy?".

From start-to-finish, this movie is a stinker. Bad acting, lousy script and terrible production values. I can see Joe Namath doing it but it's hard to believe that an accomplished actress like Ann-Margaret agreed to appear in this loser. That being said, I just located and purchased this hard-to-find flick at the aptly-named Cheesy Movies.com. Why? Because it is the only movie that blue-eyed soul man Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders ever appeared in. If there are any Cochran fans reading this, grab this movie and catch Wayne and his boys doing a full-length version of "I Can't Turn You Loose". Wayne Cochran recordings are very hard to come by, let alone a cinematic appearance. It was worth the $4.98 I paid for it.

I'm not an American, but I'm well aware of Joe Namath being a sporting legend. However, as an actor he stinks. He's very wooden and lacks charisma, and whoever decided to cast him as a biker was an idiot. Namath plays C.C. Ryder, a nice guy mechanic who runs with a biker gang "The Heads", led by Moon (biker movie legend William Smith). While he is accepted by most of the gang, he has an easy relationship with Moon, and once he becomes involved with a "straight" fashion reporter (Ann-Margaret) tensions mount, leading to a kidnapping. Namath as I said is lousy, and as 90% of the movie focuses on him, it makes it hard to stay interested. But Ann-Margaret is a babe, and even better William Smith is terrific. Smith plays a great bad ass, it's just a pity there wasn't more of him in the movie. As well as Smith watch 'C.C. and Company' to see Sid Haig and Bruce Glover as two of Smith's biker pals. These three talented character actors save the movie from being a complete turkey.

As far as low budget biker films go, "C.C. and Company" definitely makes enjoyable viewing for a number of reasons. Of course, the main reason is Joe Namath, who fumbles (bad pun), stumbles and basically sleep walks (I guess he simply cannot act) through this abomination of the "so bad it's good" variety. Watching Joe in this film now is rather funny, because you wonder what he was thinking in even signing to do this movie, hoping to have some sort of film career.Of course there is also Ann-Margaret, who is very good looking, but she isn't much in the acting department either. Actually it's safe to say that the two big names in this flick are the film's worst actors, and you can almost fall asleep in the scenes where it's just Joe and Ann. Everyone else, dare I say, seems to be having a lot more fun making this movie, especially the leader of The Heads, Joe's biker gang. He's the most fun to watch, especially when he's mad at 'ol Joe for not giving all his money into the biker "pot."There's some good bike action, especially the final showdown between Joe and the Heads' leader on a track. Tons of cheesy scenes abound, but it's all a lot of fun. It's funny how in almost all these old biker films, many of the bikers are of the "goofy" type, and do things like carry each other in their arms. Even the big chair the leader gets to sit in looks funny. Many of the biker girls are pretty, especially when they go out on the road to "earn" some cash for the gang's money pot.It was especially good to see this film in it's original "R" rated uncut form, after a bunch of times watching as a kid on TV in the 70's.I found "C.C. and Company" on a DVD with two other 1971 biker flicks, "Evel Knievel" and "Angels Hard As They Come" (Gary Busey's first flick) for less than ten dollars, talk about a great bargain! The DVD was called "Classic Biker Movies" and is a definitely great deal. Even the quality was pretty decent.I wonder how 'ol Joe feels about this flick now. No doubt he'd probably be up for a sequel!