Leatherlip (1972)

06/23/1972 (ZA) • 1h 30m

Adventure, Drama

Overview

A super-model begins to question her glitzy, frenetic lifestyle when she awakes after a all night party to find a strange man in her bed. She sees a surfer riding the waves below, follows him to his tented camp on the banks of a river. 'Leatherlip' earns a living making leather goods and roaming around on an extraordinary 'trike' with his worldly goods and surfboard strapped on an overhead rack. They fall in love and she abandons her previous life. Then inexplicably she disappears. Leatherlip sets off on a cross-country odyssey to find her, knowing only that her father lives on a boat on the West Coast...

Top Billed Cast

Richard Loring

One night stand guy

Whotsie

Injured San (Bushman)

Bill Brewer

Stienie’s father

Tim Hughes

Leatherlip


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

surfing

surfer

suicide attempt

sandstorm

south africa

hippie lifestyle

trike

antelope

sexploitation

free spirit

nervous breakdown

kalahari

road movie

modeling

cape town, south africa

lost film

drag racing

spiritual quest

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