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The women in prison film (or WiP film) is a subgenre of exploitation film that began in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. [ 1 ] Their stories feature imprisoned women who are subjected to sexual and physical abuse , typically by sadistic male or female prison wardens, guards and other inmates.
The Muthers is a 1976 English-language Filipino blaxploitation women in prison film. [1] It starred Jeannie Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, Jayne Kennedy, Tony Carreon and John Montgomery. Quentin Tarantino later wrote, "So why is this cruddy little flick one of my favorite movies? It's the playful execution of a preposterous story that's the ...
Women Without Names (1940 film) Women's Prison (1955 film) Women's Prison Massacre; Y. Yield to the Night
The film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a bank-robbery gang. It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles. In 1928, Dorothy Mackaye , #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison .
Love Camp 7 is regarded as a cult classic because it represents the beginning of a fashion for exploitation films about women in prison in the 1970s, such as Women in Cages (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972), both of which made Pam Grier a recognizable name in the genre.
Caged Heat (also known as Renegade Girls) is a 1974 women in prison film. It was written and directed by Jonathan Demme (in his directorial debut) for New World Pictures, headed by Roger Corman. The film stars Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Erica Gavin, Ella Reid, Rainbeaux Smith, and Barbara Steele.
The Big Bust Out is the US title of an Italian women in prison film, The Crucified Girls of San Ramon (Io Monaca... per tre Carogne e Sette Peccatrici). The US rights were bought by Roger Corman for New World Pictures, who cut out 20 minutes for the US release. [1] Roger Corman later said the film was not very good, but he managed to make money ...
La Prisonnière (also known as Woman in Chains) is a 1968 drama film written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. [1] It follows an attractive young woman living with an avant-garde artist who falls disastrously for the voyeuristic owner of the gallery that shows her husband's work.