| C.C. and Company | |
| Director: | Seymour Robbie |
| Producer: | Allan Carr Roger Smith |
| Starring: | Joe Namath Ann-Margret William Smith |
| Cinematography: | Charles Wheeler |
| Editing: | Fred Chulack |
| Music: | Lenny Stack |
| Production Companies: | Namanco Rogallan Productions |
| Distributor: | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $1.1 million (US/ Canada rentals)[1] or $2.8 million[2] |
C.C. and Company is a 1970 American biker film directed by Seymour Robbie. It starred Joe Namath as biker C.C. Ryder, Ann-Margret as fashion journalist Ann, and William Smith as Moon, the leader of the fictitious outlaw biker club the "Heads Company". The film also features singer Wayne Cochran and his band The C.C. Riders.
C.C. Ryder falls in with a biker gang in the desert, and then rescues Ann from trouble with the same gang. There next occurs a motocross race tied in with a fashion shoot. The Heads disrupt the event, but C.C. Ryder enters the race to gain Ann's favor. This puts him in conflict with Moon. When Ryder wins the race and leaves with his award money the gang kidnaps Ann, and Ryder must ride back to save her.
Reviews were mostly negative. It was described by The New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby as "the picture to name when someone asks you to recommend 'a good bad movie.:
In his Chicago Tribune review, Gene Siskel, who supplied it with no stars, felt it was "hateful", adding:
The film was also blasted by the Cleveland Press' Tony Mastroianni:
Filmink called it a "remarkably poor vehicle for Ann-Margret "considering it was written by her husband".[3]
The film's trailer is played during a scene in a movie theater in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. (This constitutes an anachronism, as Tarantino's film is set in February 1969, and C.C. and Company was not released until October 1970.)