Gidget Meets Hondo

1980•8m

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration against Love’s killing. Nicolas’ Gidget is a self-absorbed young white woman who remains clueless to the violence erupting around her, ultimately to her own peril. The film asks whether such police brutality would be tolerated if the victim were a middle-class white woman.

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UCLA School of Film and Television

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Status

Released

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Cast

Bernard Nicolas

Peggy Skomal

Reginald Bruce

John Paspachel

Marie Contin

Michael Friend

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