Jonathan Demme directs Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins and Barbara Steele in this women in prison exploitation flick from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures.

Early exploitation Demme that, one or two scenes aside, doesn’t feel all the predatory. The first hour is a grindhouse Orange Is The New Black. The last twenty widens out and amps up the action. All the inmates have quirks and heart. Still fulfils what the dirty mac brigade would have required back then… and at least one of those scenes of sexual threat is quite abrasive. On the whole though… fun.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Big Doll House (1971)