Policewomen (1974)
8/10
GOOD CAMPY MOVIE
28 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I watched this in "full screen" and I couldn't read the opening credits as they were cut off in the middle. Lacy Bond (Sondra Currie aka Linda from "Hangover") is a security guard at a woman's prison, who is also a police woman. During an escape, Lacy manages to prevent all but two of the women from escaping using karate kicks, while wearing a tight split skirt. When the tear gas is lobed at the good guys, Lacy is the only one who knows to crawl along the floor to get out. She does so with her butt sticking about 2 feet into the air.

Lacy is rewarded with condescending remarks by her male counterparts, remarks which she also freely dishes out. I wasn't three minutes into this film when I wanted to see her die, unfortunately this was a 70's film and I knew that wasn't going to happen. The dialogue was extremely campy and funny in retrospect. The movie is filled with sorry puns... "We couldn't find a male to penetrate the (all female) gang." ..."So you need a woman to go undercover?"

Lacy must go undercover to infiltrate an all girl gang run by Maude (Elizabeth Stuart). Guess where the two escapees ended up? The gang is doing armed robberies, smuggling gold, and dealing heroin.

The soundtrack was campy by modern standards. "Peter Gunn" style music to enhance bad chase scenes, French accordion music for love scenes, etc. Cars driving straight along the highway having squealing tires. Cars sliding down an embankment, suddenly having a rear gas tank explosion, then the hood blows off. Guys with 70's porno mustaches.

Nudity (Susan McIver of the Golddiggers,Jeannie Bell aka T.N.T.Jackson ,Sondra Currie) cat fights, sex, swearing. Okay this wasn't supposed to be a comedy, but I had to laugh, MST style.
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