Gidget Meets Hondo
1980
Overview
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.
Cast
Bernard Nicolas
Peggy Skomal
Reginald Bruce
John Paspachel
Marie Contin
Michael Friend
Directors
Bernard Nicolas
