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{{Infobox film
| name           = Roller Boogie
| image          = Rollerboogie.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Mark L. Lester]]
| producer       = Bruce Cohn Curtis
| screenplay     = Barry Schneider
| story          = [[Irwin Yablans]]
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Linda Blair]]
* [[Beverly Garland]]
* [[Roger Perry]]
* Jimmy Van Patten
* [[Kimberly Beck]]
* [[Sean McClory]]
* [[Mark Goddard]]
}}
| music          = [[Craig Safan]]
| cinematography = [[Dean Cundey]]
| editing        = {{unbulleted list|Byron "Buzz" Brandt|Edilberto Cruz|Edward Salier}}
| studio         = [[Compass International Pictures]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1979|12|19}}
| runtime        = 103 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1.5 million<ref name=schreger>{{cite news|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 31, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-roller-boogie-movi/68331971/|last=Schreger|first=Charles|pages=8–{{URL|https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/124339546/|9}}|via=Newspapers.com|title=Irwin Yablans Boogies All the Way to the Bank|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153017/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-roller-boogie-movi/68331971/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| gross          = $13.3 million<ref name=bom>{{cite web|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079822/|title=Roller Boogie|access-date=May 9, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153017/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079822/|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Roller Boogie''''' is a 1979 American [[teen film|teen]] [[musical film|musical]] [[exploitation film]]<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The Loft Cinema]]|title=Roller Boogie|url=https://loftcinema.org/film/roller-boogie/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510014559/https://loftcinema.org/film/roller-boogie/|archive-date=May 10, 2023}}</ref> about [[roller disco]], directed by [[Mark L. Lester]] and starring [[Linda Blair]], [[Jim Bray]], [[Beverly Garland]], [[Roger Perry]], [[Mark Goddard]], Jimmy Van Patten, and [[Kimberly Beck]]. Set in the [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice]] suburb of [[Los Angeles]] at the height of the [[roller skating]] fad of the late 1970s, it follows an upper-class young woman (Blair) who falls in love with a [[working class]] skater (Bray). The two seek to thwart efforts from a powerful mobster attempting to acquire the land where a popular [[roller rink]] is located.

The film was developed by [[Irwin Yablans]], head of [[Compass International Pictures]], who had experienced notable commercial success with ''[[Halloween (1978 film)|Halloween]]'' (1978), which was a major box-office hit the year prior. Filming took place in Los Angeles in the summer of 1979, and its elaborate skating sequences were choreographed by [[David Winters (choreographer)|David Winters]]. Over 50 professional skaters were employed for the film.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wanamaker |first1=Marc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehv3EAAAQBAJ&dq=jim+bray+skater&pg=PT234 |title=Hollywood on the Santa Monica Beach |last2=Verge |first2=Arthur C. |date=2023-10-30 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4396-7972-2 |language=en}}</ref>

Released by [[United Artists]] on December 19, 1979, ''Roller Boogie'' received mostly negative reviews from film critics, who deemed it a shallow film exploiting the trends of disco and roller skating, though it was a box office success, grossing over $13 million. In the years since its original release, the film has developed a [[cult following]] for its [[camp (style)|campy]] style and focus on disco and roller skating culture.<ref name=trailers>{{cite web|work=[[Trailers from Hell]]|title=David DeCoteau on ''Roller Boogie''|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioyvWculnc&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftrailersfromhell.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title|date=April 16, 2015|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516051157/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioyvWculnc&embeds_euri=https://trailersfromhell.com/&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title|archive-date=May 16, 2023|access-date=May 10, 2023}}</ref>

==Plot==
Bobby James and his friends ("Phones", "Hoppy", "Gordo", and several others) skate to work on the [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice]] beach [[boardwalk]]. Meanwhile, in [[Beverly Hills]], Terry Barkley, a genius flautist is also heading towards the beach in her [[Excalibur (automobile)|Excalibur]] [[Phaeton body|Phaeton]] automobile. She also is joined by her snobbish girlfriend Lana.

Bobby is skating on the boardwalk with a female friend when he encounters Terry, but she remains aloof and spurns his advance. They later meet at a local roller rink called Jammer's. During a near catastrophic skating incident where Bobby saves the day, she gives in. Terry wants to pay him to teach her how to skate for the [[Roller Disco]] contest. Even though they share a flirty, romantic couples skate, later on she rebuffs him yet again.

The next day has both Terry and Bobby getting flack from their respective friends and family. She has had enough and goes to the beach. She finds Bobby there, practicing a jump and turns on the charm. He shares with her his dream to become an Olympic Roller Skater. They end up making out on the beach. Bobby asks her if she is going to pay him for sex as well, which garners a mighty slap in return and she takes off.

Terry goes home and has a row with her mother. She wants to give up her dreams of playing classical flute at [[Juilliard School]] and win a roller disco contest at the beach. Her mother is shocked by this, enough so that she begins taking [[Diazepam|Valium]]. Terry decides to run away. The next morning, she calls and invites Bobby to breakfast where she apologizes. He wants to skate with her, but on his terms: no money; he calls the shots. Through a series of outdoor scenes, they work together to form a routine.

Jammer's is about to be sold to a ruthless mobster land developer Thatcher, who is wrangling the rink's owner, Delany. Bobby and Terry are clued into this plot and unsuccessful attempt to get her father, a lawyer, to help. While Terry is performing at a lush outdoor party, some of the young men sneak up, causing chaos. As a result, a group of distinguished guests falls into the swimming pool. This ruins the concert, as well as the party and its ceremonial cake. Terry gets reprimanded and slapped by her father for her running away, as well as for hanging out with her radical friends. The skaters find evidence, in the form of a cassette tape recording of the invalid ordeal, to kill the deal. Through a wild chase on the streets near the canal zone of Venice, they race to get it to the cops on time. They do, the mobsters are hauled off and the Boogie Contest is on. Terry and Bobby skate their routine and win.

Later on, back at the beach Terry and Bobby share a sad goodbye. Both promise to write each other as she heads off to [[New York City]] and he heads off to the Olympics.

==Cast==
{{cast list|
* [[Linda Blair]] as Terry Barkley
* Jim Bray as Bobby James
* [[Beverly Garland]] as Lillian Barkley
* [[Roger Perry]] as Roger Barkley 
* Jimmy Van Patten as "Hoppy"
* [[Kimberly Beck]] as Lana
* [[Sean McClory]] as "Jammer" Delany
* [[Mark Goddard]] as Thatcher
* Albert Insinnia as "Gordo"
* [[Stoney Jackson]] as "Phones"
* [[M. G. Kelly]] as D.J.
* Christopher S. Nelson as Franklin
* Patrick Wright as Sergeant Danner
* [[Dorothy Meyer]] as Ada
* Shelley Golden as Mrs. Potter
* Bill Ross as Nick
* Carey Fox as Sonny
* Rick Sciacca as "Complete Control" Conway
* [[Nina Axelrod]] as Bobby's Friend
* Helanie Lembeck as "Chiquie" (uncredited)
* [[Lynn Herring]] as Featured Skater (uncredited)
}}

==Production==
===Development===
''Roller Boogie'' was written by Barry Schneider with [[Irwin Yablans]], who is credited with creating the story. Yablans' Compass International Pictures, founded with Joseph Wolfe, would distribute the movie. Compass International Pictures had unprecedented success the previous year with [[John Carpenter]]'s slasher ''[[Halloween (1978 film)|Halloween]]''. In between ''Halloween'' and ''Roller Boogie'', the company would distribute three other titles, ''[[Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula|Nocturna]]'', ''Fyre'' and ''[[Tourist Trap (film)|Tourist Trap]]'', the latter the most successful of the three; Blair would go on to appear in Compass International Pictures' final film, the slasher ''[[Hell Night]]'' (1981).

In an earlier version of the script, Bobby James' primary interest was songwriting. In the movie, Bobby and friends were trying to write a new song by humming into a tape recorder. Once he meets Terry, she assists him in scoring it using her musical abilities. By the film's ending, Terry leaves for her music scholarship whilst Bobby pursues his musical career. There is no mention of the Olympics in the earlier version. Another scene that does not feature in the movie that was present in the script comes where Bobby helps Terry escape from her bedroom after she is grounded by her parents. However, this scene was shot since there are photos in various publicity items with Jim Bray peeking through a window on a ladder.

===Casting===
[[Linda Blair]] was cast in the lead role of Terry, and at the time had intended on moving away from the [[Horror film|horror genre]] in favor of more lighthearted pictures, after her breakthrough appearance in ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]'' (1973).{{sfn|De Chirico|Murry|2022|p=147}}

Although originally hired as a stunt double, Professional roller skater Jim Bray was cast as Bobby James, and was paid approximately $20,000 for his appearance in the film.<ref name="schreger" /> Bray did not appear in any other films after ''Roller Boogie'', despite achieving something of pin-up status in teen magazines largely based on his appearance in the film.{{sfn|De Chirico|Murry|2022|p=149}}

Stoney Jackson would appear in the third and final season of ''[[The White Shadow (TV series)|The White Shadow]]'' as Jesse B. Mitchell before its cancellation in 1981, and in [[Michael Jackson]]'s music video "[[Beat It]]" (1983). He also appeared in [[Diane Lane]]'s movie ''[[Streets of Fire]]'' (1984) as the lead singer of a doo wop group.

===Filming===
The film was shot in eight weeks through the summer of 1979, mostly on the Venice boardwalks but also at the nearby acclaimed Marina Del Rey skatepark, in Beverly Hills and, for the final competition sequence, at The Stardust Ballroom in Hollywood.<ref name=schreger2>{{cite news|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-article-on-two-dis/68312713/|last=Schreger|first=Charles|title=Roller Disco: Two Ways to Go|page=8|via=Newspapers.com|date=August 6, 1979|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153019/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-article-on-two-dis/68312713/|url-status=live}}</ref> To keep production costs low, the film was shot as a [[trade union|non-union]] feature.<ref name=afi/> Producer Yablans initially secured a $400,000 budget, which ballooned to a total of $1.5 million by the time filming completed.<ref name=afi/> [[Dean Cundey]], who had filmed ''Halloween'' the previous year, served as cinematographer.<ref name=trailers/>

All of the skating sequences and the dancing sequences were choreographed by [[David Winters (choreographer)|David Winters]] and were instrumental in the success of the film. Prior to the production of the picture, skating trainer Barbara Guedel tested over 300 young skaters, finally selecting fifty that would make up the skating crowds in the picture – many of whom would also feature in another skating-influenced picture, ''[[Xanadu (film)|Xanadu]]'' (1980). The ensemble were then given three weeks of training before the photography began, and, at the behest of their managers/producers, the principal actors were only on roller-skates for short periods of time. However, Blair did much of her own skating for the picture. Two stunt doubles were used, one for the skating chase around the streets of Venice – Barbara Guedel would perform the trickier dancing stunts in the competition sequence. Blair would develop [[bursitis]] in her hip during the making of the picture.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[SFGATE]]|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/BOOGIE-FEVER-ROLLS-INTO-THE-CASTRO-2543091.php|title=Boogie Fever Rolls into the Castro|date=January 22, 2006|last=Stanley|first=John|url-status=live|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510011614/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/BOOGIE-FEVER-ROLLS-INTO-THE-CASTRO-2543091.php}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
The soundtrack of the film largely draws on the [[disco]] sound that was popular in the late 1970s. A double-LP soundtrack was issued by [[Casablanca Records]] in 1979.

Almost all of the tracks were written directly for the movie by Bob Esty and Michelle Aller. Esty/Aller had at the time recently scored a sizable hit, writing [[Cher]]'s disco-single "[[Take Me Home (Cher song)|Take Me Home]]". Incidentally, they produced Cher's accompanying LP of the same name, as well as the ill-fated follow-up, ''[[Prisoner (Cher album)|Prisoner]]''. Cher would contribute one song to the Roller Boogie soundtrack – the Esty produced "[[Hell on Wheels (song)|Hell on Wheels]]", used in the opening sequence. The track originally featured on the ''Prisoner'' album, and a rare accompanying video clip featuring Cher roller-skating also appeared around the same time as the release of the movie.

The "Hell on Wheels" Japanese single includes another Prisoner album track, the 12" version of "Git Down (Guitar Groupie)", which is advertised as "Theme from Roller Boogie", but the song does not appear in the film. This single features a still of Linda Blair and Jim Bray on the cover.

The song "[[Lord Is It Mine]]", performed by Bob Esty, was originally written by [[Supertramp]]'s [[Roger Hodgson]] for their LP ''[[Breakfast in America]]''. He also performed the tracks "Summer Love", "Rollin' Up a Storm" and "Roller Boogie". The segued opening tracks of side two of the double LP, "Electronix (Roller Dancin')", and the Latin-disco instrumental "Cunga", are credited to Bob Esty and Cheeks. Craig Safan composed cues for the film's original score, but the film tends to rely on actual songs as opposed to instrumental pieces.

Along with "Hell on Wheels", the other song on the soundtrack that was previously available prior to the soundtrack release is [[Earth, Wind & Fire]]'s well-known disco single, "Boogie Wonderland", featuring [[The Emotions]]. Only two songs featured in the film do not appear on the soundtrack: Jean Shy's "Night Dancer", which appears in the movie when Terry first visits the roller-disco rink. Dave Mason plays his hit from two years before the film, "We Just Disagree".

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'''Side A:'''
# "[[Hell on Wheels (song)|Hell on Wheels]]" – [[Cher]] (5:32)
# "Good Girls" – Johnnie Coolrock (3:38)
# "All for One, One for All" – Mavis Vegas Davis (4:20)
# "[[Boogie Wonderland]]" – [[Earth Wind & Fire]] (4:48)

'''Side B:'''
# "We've Got the Power" – Ron Green (5:15)
# "Top Jammer" – Cheeks (4:12)
# "Summer Love" – Bob Esty (3:53)
# "Takin' My Life in My Own Hands" – Ron Green (5:25)

'''Side C:'''
# "Electronix (Roller Dancin')" – Bob Esty & Cheeks (5:00)
# "Cunga" – Bob Esty (4:54)
# "Evil Man" – Mavis Vegas Davis (4:17)
# "Lord is it Mine" – Bob Esty (4:26)

'''Side D:'''
# "Rollin' up a Storm (The Eye of the Hurricane)" – Bob Esty (6:30)
# "The Roller Boogie" – Bob Esty (6:09)
# "Love Fire" – Bob Esty & Michelle Aller (4:54)

==Release==
===Box office===
''Roller Boogie'' was promoted with a lengthy trailer in the autumn of 1979, before premiering at the United Artists theater in [[Warner Center, Los Angeles|Warner Center]] on December 19.<ref name=afi>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56978|work=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]|title=Roller Boogie|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153017/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56978|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was released in 500 theaters by [[United Artists]] on December 21.<ref name=schreger/> Though initial ticket sales were not as high as the film's producers anticipated,<ref name=schreger/> it went on to gross a total of $13.2 million at the box office, proving popular with teen audiences.<ref name=bom/> Initially, Compass International Pictures planned on a sequel (to be set in Mexico—Acapulco Roller Boogie), but probably due to the end of the disco fad, the idea was scrapped.

===Critical response===
Writing for the ''[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]]'', critic Greg Beebe called the film a "travesty" and deemed it an [[exploitation film]] capitalizing on the trend of roller boogie disco culture.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-cruz-sentinel/124339272/|work=[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]]|last=Beebe|first=Greg|date=December 28, 1979|page=36|title='Roller Boogie' Is A Yablans Travesty|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510160728/https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-cruz-sentinel/124339272/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' felt it was thematically shallow, deeming it "the dopiest movie of the year".<ref>{{cite news|date=December 19, 1979|last=Maslin|first=Janet|author-link=Janet Maslin|title=Screen: 'Roller Boogie': Round and Round|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510012715/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/19/archives/screen-roller-boogieround-and-round.html|archive-date=May 10, 2023|url-status=live|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/19/archives/screen-roller-boogieround-and-round.html|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] awarded the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, likening it to the beach party-themed films produced by [[American International Pictures]]: "There is a sense in which ''Roller Boogie'' comes as a refreshing surprise: I didn't think it was still possible, in the dog-eared final days of the 1970s, to have this silly, innocent, lame-brained and naive movie. I'd always thought that when [[Annette Funicello]] and [[Frankie Avalon]] grew up, that was it".<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|title=Roller Boogie movie review|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=January 1, 1980|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/roller-boogie-1980|url-status=live|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510013645/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/roller-boogie-1980}}</ref>

The film is listed in the [[Golden Raspberry Awards]] founder [[John J. B. Wilson]] book ''The Official Razzie Movie Guide'' as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=John |title=The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst |year=2005 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=0-446-69334-0}}</ref>

===Home media===
''Roller Boogie'' was released on DVD by [[MGM Home Entertainment]] on August 24, 2004, as a Region 1 widescreen DVD.

''Roller Boogie'' was released on Blu-ray for the first time by Olive Films on July 7, 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=Steven|title=Olive Films' Summer Blu-ray Titles Now Available for Pre-Order!|url=http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Olive_Films/Disc_Announcements/olive-films-summer-bluray-titles-now-available-for-preorder/24001|access-date=September 10, 2015|publisher=High-Def Digest|date=June 29, 2015|archive-date=July 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703012526/http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Olive_Films/Disc_Announcements/olive-films-summer-bluray-titles-now-available-for-preorder/24001|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Roller Boogie'' will be released on DVD & Blu-ray on June 03, 2025 by Sandpiper Pictures.

==Legacy==
''Roller Boogie'' is frequently cited among a number of films in the late-1970s that capitalized on the roller boogie trend, along with films such as ''[[Skatetown, U.S.A.]]''.{{sfn|LoBrutto|2021|p=201}} It was also one of the last films made by actress Linda Blair before she appeared in a series of exploitation horror and crime films throughout the following decade.{{sfn|De Chirico|Murry|2022|p=149}}

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|0|3|7|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Roller Boogie |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/roller_boogie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129040336/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/roller_boogie/ |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |access-date=March 4, 2013 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> {{Metacritic film prose|34|6|access-date=7 March 2025}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roller Boogie critic reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/roller-boogie/critic-reviews/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=www.metacritic.com |language=en}}</ref> Despite having a rare 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has developed a loyal following and is seen as something of a time-capsule of the late 1970s and the disco era. The film is considered a [[Cult film|cult classic]].{{sfn|De Chirico|Murry|2022|p=149}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Fenner |first=Justin |title=No, Tom Ford's Next Movie Isn't A Remake Of Roller Boogie |url=http://www.styleite.com/news/tom-ford-roller-boogie-hoax/ |work=Stylite |access-date=December 12, 2014 |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213093121/http://www.styleite.com/news/tom-ford-roller-boogie-hoax/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In August 2006, fashion brand [[American Apparel]] played the movie in store windows in New York City. Matthew Swenson, the company's fashion media director, stated: "We became obsessed with that movie. On a whim, we also bought lamé fabric and turned them into leggings, and the gold and silver took off."<ref>{{cite web |last=Critchell |first=Samantha |title=Wheels of Fashion Spin Back to Roller Disco |url=http://www.edgeboston.com/style/fashion/News//35154/wheels_of_fashion_spin_back_to_roller_disco |publisher=Associated Press |date=July 4, 2007 |access-date=December 12, 2014 |archive-date=December 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216143210/http://www.edgeboston.com/style/fashion/News//35154/wheels_of_fashion_spin_back_to_roller_disco |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Susan |title=Did You Know? |url=http://www.susan-a-miller.com/rollerboogie/funstuff6.html |publisher=Roller Boogie Online |access-date=December 12, 2014 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053352/http://www.susan-a-miller.com/rollerboogie/funstuff6.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|1970s
}}
;Other films released during the late 1970s disco and jukebox musical craze:
* ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Thank God It's Friday (film)|Thank God It's Friday]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Skatetown, U.S.A.]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Apple (1980 film)|The Apple]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Xanadu (film)|Xanadu]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Can't Stop the Music]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Fame (1980 film)|Fame]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Get Rollin' (film)|Get Rollin'<nowiki/>]]'' (1980), documentary

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book|last1=De Chirico|first1=Millie|first2=Quatoyiah|last2=Murry|year=2022|title=TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema|publisher=Running Press|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|isbn=978-0-762-48001-2}}
* {{cite book|last=LoBrutto|first=Vincent|year=2021|title=The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-1-538-13719-2}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0079822|Roller Boogie}}
* {{TCMDb title|88556|Roller Boogie}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|roller_boogie|Roller Boogie}}

{{Mark L. Lester}}

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