The director of the movie, George Carey, plays an assistant District Attorney who has an affair with a babysitter (Patricia Wymer), meanwhile being blackmailed by a biker's girlfriend (Kathy Williams). It is not a movie that I would recommend to anybody but the exploitation completist. It has some funny moments -- such as when Carey's character accuses his girlfriend of being "kind of a hippie." It has all the obligatory exploitation bits -- implied rape, lots of nudity, some violence with a knife. The production values are a bit higher than most drive-in films from this era, as if the director hoped to actually make an impact on the mainstream. His film is hopelessly naive and has little to offer an audience then or now.

I love this movie. If you love exploitation, this is a true gem. The Babysitter really has it all. Bikers, switchblades, pot smoking, rock n' roll hippies, go-go dancers and tacos! All in the first ten minutes. In this story you may find a wide range of sleaze and perversion but I also noticed a real sweetness to the movie. It's about a man who feels like he has lost touch wife and starts to have a wondering eye for the babysitter. What was unique to me was the fact that neither Candy the babysitter nor Mr. Maxwell seemed inherently evil. Even though he is cheating on his wife, it couldn't seem more wholesome. Not only that but his wife is a total shrew! This film doesn't only exploit sex and violence but the, 'youth culture,' of 1969. The babysitter in question is perfectly named, Candy. She just wants to laugh and dance and have a good time. "If that what it takes to be a hippie, I guess we all have a little hippie in us," says our hero George Maxwell. He doesn't have a little hippie in him as much he has a little hippie on him! There is also a subplot that seems to be taking place on Spahn ranch in Death Valley about a bad ass biker chick trying to blackmail George to set her boyfriend free. She photographs the affair and boasts that she will take the photos to his wife and his boss if he doesn't set her convicted murderer boyfriend (her, "Old man," as she puts it) free. She also tries to photograph George's potato faced daughter, in one of the most horrifying lesbian scenes of all time! Each shot of this scene looks like the last known photograph of either party. It's so rough and gritty and awkward but I loved it. This film is so much better than the bigger budget and in color remake, "Weekend with the Babysitter 1970." Watch this with some good friends and you might be surprised how much you get into it. FOUR STARS! Does this seem a little high? Perhaps but I couldn't get this flick out of my mind! SPOILER! The end is the best, Mrs. Maxwell does end of seeing the lurid but artfully crafted photos of the affair and all she has to say to her husband is, "Well, maybe we DO play too much bridge," Hilarious!

Great fun. This is ostensibly a tale of an older man falling for a young girl but turns out to be such fun because the film makers, clearly worried that their tale might not hold up, pepper the movie with colours, music and dialogue of the moment. This may have seemed crass at the time but now makes for a wonderful time capsule of a movie. That the girls are only too glad to bare their breasts and bums helps too. There is a sub plot involving blackmail that could have held up proceedings but instead makes for more nudity and even bloody violence. George E Carey is effective as the older guy and Patricia Wymer a lovely and very willing babysitter. With nothing taken too seriously, this makes for a super drive in movie, for once worthy of the moniker, 'classic'.

I watched The Babysitter as part of BCI Eclipse' Drive-in Cult Classics (featuring Crown International Pictures releases) on DVD. I think it is a very good film.This movie packs a lot of story into a very short time. You have hippies, rock music, bikers, lesbians, sexual impropriety, blackmail, and murder, all in one spot! The lead actors do a credible job. And, I found the intricately woven plot to be believable and interesting.However, the supporting cast, primarily the bikers, delivers a stilted performance, particularly when asked to deliver lines with more than just a few words. Perhaps they used real bikers, instead of actors. A couple of the characters, in particular, were exceptionally believable.The musical score is absolutely spot-on, for the times, the tempo, and for moving the story forward. I found the music a real treat. I noticed in the opening credits that the movie featured the music of "The Food," I googled them; but, couldn't find anything...In any case, George E. Carey who wrote, produced and starred in this movie liked the idea so much (of a wayward married man brought to redemption through trials and tribulation; and, a little help - of course) that he wrote, produced and starred in "Weekend with the Babysitter."