Gidget Meets Hondo

Gidget Meets Hondo — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 10, 1980
• Runtime
• 8 min
• Director
• Bernard Nicolas

Gidget Meets Hondo — Cast

Bernard Nicolas

P

Peggy Skomal

R

Reginald Bruce

J

John Paspachel

M

Marie Contin Michael Friend