I don't understand anyone who says that this is one of the worst exploitation films they have ever seen. Just the title alone gives this cult status and all the ingredients are here for it being an extremely fun film to watch. Film starts out in a Filipino womans prison where a bunch of new inmates are put through orientation and they soon meet Warden Logan (Laurie Burton) and Matron Densmore (Lynn Borden) who are lesbian lovers but Densmore likes to bed the pretty new inmates. She has a secret peephole by the shower where she watches the ladies and masturbates. One night inmate Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) is propositioned by her but Lee tells her no. Later Lee meets a tall blond named Karen Brent (Margaret Markov) who is part of a bunch of revolutionaries and they plan on busting her out. While on a bus being transported to a work detail the Rebels ambush the bus and after some gunfire Lee and Karen escape. They are shackled together but don't like each other and they quarrel about which direction to go. The Rebels are headed by Ernesto (Zaldy Zschornack) and he tells his men that they must find Karen and will stop at nothing to get her back. Lee and Karen keep running and they knock out some nuns and steal they're gowns to try and sneak around the police. Meanwhile, Captain Cruz of the police makes a deal with a ruthless bounty hunter named Ruben (Sid Haig) to help get the girls in exchange that the police will leave his illegal operations alone. Also, Lee's ex-boyfriend is a gangster named Vic (Vic Diaz) and he wants Lee badly because she stole 40,000 dollars from him.
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Finally the Rebels catch up with them and they are reunited with Karen. They give Lee a ride to a pier where a friend is going to get her out of the area with his boat but when they get there Vic and his men are waiting and a vicious gun battle ensues. This film was directed by a pretty popular "B" movie director named Eddie Romero and he helmed many low budget horror films in the Phillipines. The story is written by a very young Jonathan Demme who two years later would direct his first film "Caged Heat". This film is of course inspired by "The Defiant Ones" but the fun of these exploitation flicks is that they take on a popular theme and add all sorts of sleaze and mayhem. The characters are all written well and Haig steals the film with his cowboy-like Ruben. He dresses like a cowboy and in one scene he threatens to shoot off the smallest penis between two men. Grier displays some of her tough quips to fellow inmate Markov like "I don't care about that jive ass stuff" referring to Markov's revolutionary politics. Markov's character is reminiscent of Patty Hearst and in one scene she tells Grier that she always had everything but wants to stay with the rebels. Film is full of gratuitous nudity and the shower scene at the beginning of the film lasts at least 5 minutes. They're is no quick glimpses here, plenty of time for an eyeful! As far as exploitation films go this delivers the goods and the cast is excellent.
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
Finally the Rebels catch up with them and they are reunited with Karen. They give Lee a ride to a pier where a friend is going to get her out of the area with his boat but when they get there Vic and his men are waiting and a vicious gun battle ensues. This film was directed by a pretty popular "B" movie director named Eddie Romero and he helmed many low budget horror films in the Phillipines. The story is written by a very young Jonathan Demme who two years later would direct his first film "Caged Heat". This film is of course inspired by "The Defiant Ones" but the fun of these exploitation flicks is that they take on a popular theme and add all sorts of sleaze and mayhem. The characters are all written well and Haig steals the film with his cowboy-like Ruben. He dresses like a cowboy and in one scene he threatens to shoot off the smallest penis between two men. Grier displays some of her tough quips to fellow inmate Markov like "I don't care about that jive ass stuff" referring to Markov's revolutionary politics. Markov's character is reminiscent of Patty Hearst and in one scene she tells Grier that she always had everything but wants to stay with the rebels. Film is full of gratuitous nudity and the shower scene at the beginning of the film lasts at least 5 minutes. They're is no quick glimpses here, plenty of time for an eyeful! As far as exploitation films go this delivers the goods and the cast is excellent.