Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, Wonder Woman Naked

Wonder Woman naked? Yep. Lynda Carter helped a lot of adolescent boys through puberty in the 1970s in her TV portrayal of "Wonder Woman." The series ran from 1975 through 1979 and she put forth a wholesome image of an American superheroine. Kind of.  Her costume drew our eyes to certain assets that teenaged kids should not have been gawking at. Still, in the show, she never stripped...though in 1976, Lynda Carter did perform naked and in the throes of pre-marital sex in our film today. Yep, Wonder Woman, or Lynda Carter had a lot of sex scenes in which she was nude with...Marjoe Gortner? Yep. He was the pervert, psycho National Guardsman in "Earthquake," in sensurround! Today we look at a cross between "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

It begins, Lyle (Gortner) steals a car and spots Bobbie Jo...and the two fall instantly in love. Now she and him hit the road as Lyle is a wanted man. They commit robberies, join up with Bobbie Jo's sister Pearl (Merrie Lynn Ross), a stripper and her psychopath BF Slick (Jesse Vint). Oh, Bobbie Jo's bestie, Essie (Belinda Balaski) joins them. Uh oh, Lyle and Slick try to rob a place and Lyle murders a security guard. The quintet skinny-dip, make passionate pre-marital sex, and skinny-dip some more.  After some more robberies and even a bank robbery, the cops gun down Essie.  Now the gang hits banks and even Bobbie Jo machineguns innocent people. The sheriff (Gene Drew) becomes obsessed and stops at nothing to catch them.  More shootouts occur and deputies keep getting killed.

Having seen the two aforementioned films, we know that this is headed toward a brutal ending.  Even worse, during the first half of the film it was easy to see Lyle and Slick as the psychopathic influences in this film.  By the end, Bobbie Jo is the most psycho of them all.  Knowing Lynda Carter as "Wonder Woman," this is hard for us to see.  When she is dressed, she is in tight jeans, a tied-up blouse highlighting cleavage, and a bare midriff.  Lynda Carter and the camera, are good friends, no doubt. The film escalates in brutality and the killings get more and more twisted.  The ending?  Oh, my!  

Is Lynda Carter in tight jeans and a bare midriff, or even totally nude, too beautiful to get shot-gunned by a vindictive sheriff?   Was this role as a psycho-babe therapeutic to Lynda Carter who was in the midst of portraying a wholesome good-gal?  Does the fact that she skinny-dipped so often mean Bobbie Jo will die horribly...as it does in slasher films?  This is a sobering and alluring film.  Bloody erotica, if you must.  For a prurient good time, see "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw."