Wonderland Burlesque's Let's All Go To The Movies: Women Behind Bars Part VII: Pure Sexploitation

Wonderland Burlesque's 

Let's All Go To The Movies: 

Women Behind Bars Part VII

Pure Sexploitation

This is the last dozen we'll be covering as part of this series.

I did find other films/posters... but they're so sleazy that very little information is available about them... and, as you know, I like my smut with a little dirt. 

These? They don't disappoint.

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Sweet Sugar

(1972)

"Sugar gets what she wants... when she wants it!

"Her machete isn't her only weapon."

"Their world... a plantation. Their battleground... a tropical inferno.

"They're women... they're warm... they're wildcats!"

(A prostitute is set up by a corrupt politician. Found guilty, she agrees to do her time on a chain gang run by a man named Dr. John who performs medical experiments on the prisoners.)

(This one stars Phyllis Davis, who did a lot of television, including a long stint on the Robert Ulrich series Vega$, where she played his girl Friday for three seasons. She also appears in Russ Meyer's notorious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Throughout the 1970's she was in a long term relationship with Dean Martin.)

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Fugitive Girls

(1974)

AKA: Five Loose Women

"No prison bars could hold them!"

 Four hardened convicts and one wrongfully convicted inmate breakout of a remote minimum security prison. With the law in hot pursuit, the five women terrorize or kill anyone who stands in their way to freedom.

(This one was co-written by none other than the creator of Plan Nine From Outer Space, Ed Wood, Jr.! He also plays two roles onscreen - a gas station attendant called 'Pops' and a sheriff in hot pursuit - and does the voiceover for the movie trailer.)

(Rene Bond appeared  in about 300 adult films and loops. She began her career in the late 1960's, choosing to do porn for the quick cash. "I had some friends who were working in porno, and I needed the money. So they said they'd introduce me to some people, and they did. I got used to the money". She did most of her sex scenes with her boyfriend, Ric Lutze. She even had a stage show where she stripped, sang and danced - her mother and father accompanied  her to all shows. In 1978 she fell off the radar, only to be spotted in 1985 on a game show called Break The Bank, where she managed to win $9,000.)

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Savage Sisters

(1974)

"Beware! The are still at large..."

"The Brigadier General... The Colonel The Field Marshall..."

(Three women bond together to help raise money in order to fund an island revolution.)

(Shot in the Philippines, the film's budget was set at a quarter of a million dollars - unheard of for films of this type. The picture was originally going to be marketed as a martial arts film, but due to several such films underperforming at the box office, the focus was switched, presenting it as a 'Patty Hearst/Liberation Army' sort of affair.) 

(The film stars a Bond girl! Gloria Hendry played Rosie Carver in 1973's Live And Let Die. )

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Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS

(1975)

"The most dreaded Nazi of them all."

"She committed crimes so terrible... even the SS feared her!"

(Ilsa wants to prove that women deserved to fight on the frontlines of battle because they can withstand more pain and misery than men. As the warden at a Nazi death camp, she conducts medical experiments on the prisoners in order to prove her case.)

(Filled to the brim with scenes of extreme torture - including castration and flogging - this Canadian film would prove so popular with the public that three sequels were made. Film critic Gene Siskel called it "the most degenerate picture I have seen to play downtown. Ilsa plays like a textbook for rapists and mutilation freaks."  The film's director, Don Edmonds, is on record describing the screenplay as "the worst piece of shit I ever read." The film was banned in the UK, Norway, Germany, and Australia.) 

(The film's star, Dyanne Thorne, would become a cult icon. The character of Ilsa is based on Ilse Koch, the wife of a real-life commandant at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Note: the producer's first choice for the role of Ilsa was Sweet Sugar's Phyllis Davis. Thorne was a longtime Las Vegas showgirl who had studied under famed acting teacher Stella Adler. At the time she got hired she was working as a chauffeur.)

(The film was shot in nine days on the set of the television program Hogan's Heroes, which had been cancelled. The television studio allowed the film to be shot on the set because the film called for it to be burned down, thus saving the studio demolition costs.)

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The Muthers

(1976)

"Out of the steaming slave markets come the ravaging sea savages... The Muthers!"

(In order to rescue their Captain's sister, a band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp operating on a coffee plantation.)

A favorite of Quentin Tarantino, this film stars two Playboy Playmates of the Month, a Bond girl and a former Miss Ohio! Jeannie Bell and Rosanne Katon were Playboy Playmates for October, 1969 and September 1978, respectively. Trina Parks played the Bond girl 'Thumper' in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever. And Jayne Kennedy is an NAACP award winner who represented Ohio at the Miss USA Pageant, making it into the top ten.)

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Ilsa: Harem Keeper Of The Oil Sheiks

(1976)

"Ilsa's back! ...more fierce than ever!"

"With brutal fury, she enslaved an empire and shocked the world!"

(Seductive and cruel, Ilsa manages a sex-trafficking ring for a diabolical sheikh who enjoys enslaving and torturing women for his personal entertainment.)

(Despite his misgivings with the first film, director Don Edmunds returns behind the camera.) 

(Note: None of these sequels have any story continuity with one another, depicting Ilsa in wildly differing locations and time periods, often ending in her death or incapacitation.)

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Ilsa: The Tigress of Siberia

(1977)

(Set in 1953, in the frozen Siberian Tundra, Gulag 14, under the command of the brutal Ilsa, serves as a rehabilitation center for political dissidents. Twenty years later, we find Ilsa retired, working as a brothel owner in Canada. Still, her past haunts her, as Gulag 14's sole survivor seeks their revenge!)

 

(Shot on-location in Canada, this one is unique in the series due to its "two-act" structure. Produced by Ivan Reitman of Ghostbuster's fame and Roger Corman under the shared alias 'Julius Parnell.')

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Wanda The Wicked Warden

(1977)

AKA: Greta: The Wicked Warden/Greta: The Mad Butcher/Ilsa: The Wicked Warden

"Her prison was hotter than hell!"

"Young girls chained... condemned to a life of torment at the hands of their beautiful, brutal captor!"

(In order to find her sister, a young woman goes undercover to infiltrate an asylum for sexually deviant women run by evil warden Ilsa/Greta/Wanda.)

 

(Directed by Jesús Franco, Wicked Warden was not originally an official part of the film series, it was an unrelated European film starring Dyanne Thorne as a similar warden character named Wanda. When released in North America, the rights were purchased by the official Ilsa rights holders, who redubbed the film, renaming the main character Ilsa in order to capitalize on that brand's popularity. It is the only entry in the series produced in Germany.)

"This time she is..."

"That infamous 'Ilsa' woman is back."

"Once committed to her care, you'll be too terrified to die!"

"You'll choke with fear! Recoil in horror from her unleashed fury!"

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Hotel Paradise

(1980)

(Revolutionaries disguise themselves as soldiers in order to rescue a group of women who are forced to dig for emeralds in appalling conditions for an evil tyrant.)

(Starring pioneer trannsexual actress Ajita Wilson, who appeared in numerous exploitation and hardcore porn films during the 1970's and 1980's. She started out as a drag entertainer in the red-light district of New York, completing her reassignment surgery in the mid 1970's. Sadly, she died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 37.) 

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10 Violent Women

(1982)

"Lookout world... here they come... ten violent women!"

"Too hot to handle. Too cunning to catch. 

"No prison could hold them."

"They take what they want."

(Fed up with their jobs working the mines, eight women decide to give a life of crime a try. They successfully pull off a jewelry heist, only to get busted by narcs when they try to buy cocaine.)

(See? Drugs are bad.)

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Red Heat

(1985

(While visiting her fiancée in West Germany, a young American woman gets involved with a spy defecting from the east.  The two are captured and after hours of brutal interrogation they find themselves in a brutal prison at the mercy of the sadistic guards and inmates. As her fiancée desperately works through mountains of red tape to find her, she must survive in a world of deprivation, rape and torture.)

(This is the third prison movie for Linda Blair. She also starred in Chained Heat and the groundbreaking television movie Born Innocent. Blair, a vegan, is also an animal rights activist. In 2004, she founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves to rehabilitate and adopt rescue animals.)

(Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel is best remembered as Emmanuel. She was the first actress to play the soft core goddess, appearing in five out of the seven films in the series.)

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Vendetta

(1986)

"All she wants is justice."

"All it takes is murder."

(A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.)

(Sandy Martin, a popular character actress - Napoleon Dynamite, Big Love, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Ray Donovan - plays the sexually predatory inmate in this one.)

(Roberta Collins from The Big Doll House also has a featured role.)

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Bad Girls Dormitory

(1986)

"Too dangerous for juvenile hall!"

"...They don't get much sleep!"

(A corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards rule over the inmates at a women's prison until the women can take no more and come up with a plan to breakout.)

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And that does it for Women In Prison films.

I hope you've enjoyed this series.

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