Gidget Meets Hondo

Gidget Meets Hondo (1980)
Gidget Meets Hondo (1980)

Director:
Year: 1980
Format: Digital video, color, 8 min.

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. 

Allyson Nadia Field

Available for research at UCLA


Film Credits

Individual Role(s)
Bernard Nicolas
Director
Producer
Writer
Editor
Cast
Don Amis Cinematographer
Ben Caldwell Cinematographer
Reginald Bruce Cast
Marie Contin Cast
Michael Friend Cast
John Paspachel Cast
Peggy Skomal Cast