Six Pack Annie is a dreary drive-in comedy starring Lindsay Bloom. Basically a bluer, less amusing, less musical, extended episode of Hee Haw. You might call it "hicksploitation" (a term that I don’t always love in part because people make frustrating lists like this of films that don’t merit the appellation).
Annie is a redneck girl that just wants to have fun and help her mama at the restaurant. When the bank is about to foreclose on the restaurant, Annie gets desperate for cash and decides to drive to Miami (where her prostitute sister lives) to find a sugar daddy. She gets played by the city slickers but eventually lucks into what she needs.
The movie mostly alternates between hoary pratfalls (there is actually a gag involving a banana peel) by Joe Higgins as a hapless sheriff and people sitting around telling bad dirty jokes. It’s a reminder of what a genius Jackie Gleason was, although Gleason's Buford Justice arrived two years later. The movie fails on a comic level, it's boring, and they do nothing even particularly wacky. Throw in some racism and homophobia to boot. To top it all off there's almost no sex in this sex comedy (Bloom seems uncomfortable in her topless scene). Not worth your time, not even to laugh at. Try to find a screening of Redneck Miller instead.
Screened on Amazon Prime Instant
in SD with what was a surprisingly solid print and transfer.
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