Beer-swilling Annie hits the road to save a Florida diner—one sugar daddy at a time.
SIXPACK ANNIE
She's got the boys glad and the sheriff mad
Busty, blonde and beautiful, Six-Pack Annie seeks to help her Aunt Tess raise $5,000 for the family diner…by trying to find a rich daddy.
Sixpack Annie is a 1975 American action-comedy directed by Fred G. Thorne about a hard-drinking Southern woman who sets out to save her aunt's diner by searching for a wealthy benefactor.
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Synopsis
The girls' employer, Aunt Tess (Danna Hansen), is on the verge of losing her place to the banker, Mr. Piker (Donald Elson), because she is 5,641 dollars and 87 cents behind on the mortgage. Sheriff Waters arrests Annie and her boyfriend Bobby Joe (Bruce Boxleitner) for nude swimming, but later releases her and offers to pay Aunt Tess' indebtedness if Annie would marry him. When Annie comes to him, however, he admits to having only a hundred dollars, intending to make up the remainder from "collecting parking tickets".
Annie and Mary Lou drive to Miami where Annie's sister Flora (Louisa Moritz) lives in an elegant apartment, hoping to borrow the mortgage money from her, but Flora's inadequate earnings appear to derive from men who pay her for sexually entertaining them. One of her customers, a nervous married man (Sid Melton), develops a sneezing problem and hides in a large wicker basket when Annie and Mary Lou arrive. Flora suggests that Annie find a sugar daddy to fund her needs, but wealthy Frenchman Louis Danton (Oscar Cartier) is revealed to have a Napoleon complex, replete with uniform, sword and wooden horse head on a stick. Mr. O'Meyer (Raymond Danton), a confidence trickster, who also calls himself "Oscar Meyer", claims to be "as rich as Rockefeller", but after tricking Annie into an intimate encounter, steals what little money she had and leaves her a note signed "The City Slicker". Finally, another candidate, moneyed Texan Jack Whittlestone (Richard Kennedy) turns out to have a violently possessive wife Edna (Montana Smoyer) who pushes a shotgun barrel up to his nose.
Discouraged and disillusioned, Annie and Mary Lou return to the diner in Titwillow where, just as Sheriff Waters and banker Piker arrive to finalize the foreclosure, Mr. Bates (Stubby Kaye), a salesman who is also a jewelry collector, examines Annie's necklace and offers her 7,000 dollars for it. The frustrated sheriff puts his wide-brimmed hat, into which Mary Lou had poured milk, on his head and, on his way out, bumps into a midget baker (unbilled Billy Barty) carrying white cream pies, one of which winds up smeared over the sheriff's face.
- Director
- Fred G. Thorne
- Writers
- Norman Winski, Wil David, David Kidd
- Release
- 1975
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Also Known As
- Six Pack Annie, Six-Pack Annie, Six Pack-Annie, Sexpack Annie, Original title: Sixpack Annie
Why Cult
Annie’s penchant for speeding and drinking beer behind the wheel sets the tone for this rowdy Southern romp.
Set in the fictional Titwillow and filmed across Miami Beach and the Everglades, this is pure drive-in Americana.
From banana peel pratfalls to moonshiners and jealous bartenders, the film revels in broad comedy and rural clichés.
A cast of cult favorites and TV character actors—including Lindsay Bloom and Billy Barty—keep the proceedings lively.
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Questions from the Vault
What is Sixpack Annie about? +
Sixpack Annie follows Annie Bodine and her friend Mary Lou as they try to raise $5,000 to save their aunt’s diner by seeking a wealthy benefactor, all set in a rowdy Southern town.
When was Sixpack Annie released? +
Sixpack Annie was released in 1975.
Who directed Sixpack Annie? +
Fred G. Thorne directed Sixpack Annie.
How long is Sixpack Annie? +
Sixpack Annie has a runtime of 88 minutes.
What genre is Sixpack Annie? +
Sixpack Annie is an action, adventure, comedy, and romance film.
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