The Movie: My friends and I first learned of this movie when I saw its trailer on the Death Race 2000 DVD. It the trailer can be summed up in its tagline - "They caged their bodies... but not their desires!" -- and the trailer certainly had a lot of boobage and sexual innuendo. Unfortunately, all of the good parts of the movie were shown in the trailer, so this movie ended up being 94 minutes of waiting until the next good part you already saw in the trailer comes up. In short, it's a terrible movie.

In case you want a plot synopsis, it's about a group of women being held in a prison in some unspecified tropical country. Their warden is a sadistic bitch, and after going through some scenes of gratuitous nudity, we discover that the prisoners are planning an escape. Also, they haven't seen any men in so long that they'd ravage any man that comes anywhere near them.

The DVD cover claims that this is "the most influential of all women-in-prison films". I actually wasn't aware that there were a whole lot of women-in-prison films, but what I can say is that Pam Grier's boobs are really, really big, and flopping all over the place throughout this film.

This is one of those "it's so bad, it's good" movies, except, it's not quite good. But if you're looking for something with gratuitous female nudity and violence, it might fit the bill for you.

The DVD: This DVD release is about as good as the movie. You get a pan and scan transfer that's plenty grainy and dirty, with all the crushed blacks and poor contrast you can shake a stick at. The audio is flat with poor dynamic range, though almost every movie from this era sounds like that, so I guess you can't really blame the mastering process on that count.

Special features include an interview by Leanard Maltin with executive producer Roger Corman, a trailers for this, and other crappy movies, and some text cast/crew bios, and that's about it! All in all, I can't really recommend this DVD to anyone who isn't specifically looking for a bad movie to watch... which is what we were doing!