Angel is a 1984 American exploitation thriller film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neil, written by O'Neil and Joseph Michael Cala,[4][5] and starring Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, and Rory Calhoun.

Its plot follows a teenage sex worker in Los Angeles who faces danger when a serial killer begins stalking and murdering her colleagues.

[4] Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart attends private prep school in the Los Angeles area in the daytime, but transforms herself to "Angel" at night: a leather mini-skirted, high-heeled street teenaged sex worker who works Hollywood Boulevard.

Angel has a "street family" made up of aging movie cowboy Kit Carson, street performer Yoyo Charlie, drag performer Mae, fellow sex workers Crystal and Lana, and her landlady, eccentric painter Solly Mosler.

The street's dangers increase as a psycho-necrophiliac serial killer begins to stalk and murder sex workers.

Molly explains that her mother was paralyzed by a stroke and she has to head home immediately after school each day to care for her.

When Angel shows up at the room with a client of her own a couple of hours later she finds Lana's body in the shower.

Molly heads out on the streets with Solly's huge long-barreled Magnum to avenge Mae and Andrews goes after her.

The film began as a story called Hollywood Starr, about a girl who, abandoned by her father, becomes a sex worker.

The story was written in treatment form by Robert Vincent O'Neil, author of Vice Squad, and Joe Cala.

[1] O'Neill said "The idea was that when New World got the delivered print they had a movie about a 14, 15 year old hooker who never took her clothes off and never went to bed with anybody.

"[7] Lead actress Donna Wilkes was actually twenty-four years old when she played fifteen-year-old Molly Stuart.

Borchers said Donna Wilkes and Cliff Gorman did not get along, due to a conflict that originated during the taping of a pilot for the sitcom Hello Larry on which both were cast.

The theatre is also featured in the climax of the film, when a gun-toting Angel opens fire on the killer and terrifies the patrons outside.

The film managed to stay in the box office top ten for several months, becoming a sleeper hit and eventually earning $17,488,564.

A failed pilot for a TV spinoff was released straight to video as Angel 4: Undercover (1993), starring Darlene Vogel, but was non-canonical to the previous films.