Cop Killers (1977)

Flesh Gordon (1974) had been confiscated in a police bust.  The film's associate producer, Walter R. Cichy, needed the money in the meantime.  So, they used Flesh Gordon's star, Jason Williams, to make this gritty anti-establishment flick, financed by a Texas owner of X-rated theaters, interested in making a "regular" picture.

Jason "Flesh Gordon" Williams plays Ray, and the driver is Alex, played by Bill Osco.  According to Williams, the two actors didn't get along.

 Ray and Alex are a couple of loser drug dealers who get stopped by a police roadblock.

 Ray is one mean, badass mother fucker.  The two manage to kill every single cop at the roadblock.

Ray and Alex happen upon a trio of cute girls in miniskirts at an ice cream truck.  Ray notices the ice cream man is being rather rude to the ladies, and he steps in as the hero.  Alex holds the guy at knife-point while Ray gives them free ice cream.

Like the opening scene to Pretty Maids All In A Row, the camera ogles the young girls in short skirts, providing gratuitous upskirts and views from behind and below.

 Ray and Alex take the ice cream man for a ride in his truck, then kill him in the middle of the barren Tucson desert.

 At a gas station, Alex meets a pretty girl named Karen (Diane Keller, in her only IMDb credit).

 Ray kills the gas station attendant and they take Karen hostage.

This film is gritty and raw as fuck.  They just can't make films like this anymore - I leave that to you as to whether that is a good or bad thing.

 Ray tears open Karen's dress.

 Alex has a soft spot for the girl.  He pulls over and confronts madman Ray to lay off the chick.

 Back at their place, Alex pulls out a bag of cocaine.  Unexpectedly, Karen is interested.

She does a line off the Bible. 

Ray finds the two in bed naked, and pulls Karen out from under the covers.  We get a full frontal, but it's badly lit and very brief.

Alex and Ray deliver the cocaine to the head drug dealer, Collins (Michael D. White).

 Karen is put in the back room with a couple of Collins' stoned groupies.

There's an attempt to escape the police, with a car chase through the desert, ending with their car flipping over.

 The cops have them cornered.

 Ray uses Karen as a hostage/body shield. 

 Unexpectedly, Ray shoots Karen through the head!

Alex kills Ray, then is killed himself by the cops.  All three of them are dead.  THE END

Filmed for just $50K and thrown together in a hurry, this is way better than the polished, mega-budget shitfests that plague our movie theaters these days.  This packs a punch and gives a middle finger to the establishment.  It's as gritty as they come; meant for a seventies drive-in.

I will say it felt like a movie from the early seventies, rather than '77.  The hippy anti-establishment vibe and shitty folk sonndtrack belongs in '72 not the disco era. 

 ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆