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Woman in Cage

Woman in Cage

Drama, Action, Crime

Gerardo de Leon

Pam Grier, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Judith M. Brown

1971

USA, Philippines

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Completed

English

78 minutes

2025-03-02 05:24:43

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This film (drama)Also known asWomen in Cages,is aUSA, PhilippinesProducerwomen sex,At1971Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish,Current Douban rating5.4(For reference only)。
Carol Jeffries (known as 'Jeff') is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron, and attempts on her life, then convinces her cellmates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them. “Legend has it that Sam Arkoff, head of American International Pictures, saw a statuesque Grier at his company switchboard and cast her on the spot for her breakthrough hit Coffy. That, as they say, is bull shee-it. The former beauty queen made her film debut in 1970 as an extra in Russ Meyer's big breast bonanza Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and appeared in a number of B-pics shot in the Philippines the following year for AiP's rival company, Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Alongside her role as the tough-as-nails prostitute in Big Doll House were supports in the horror flick The Twilight People and as a topless hooker (again!) in Cool Breeze, then back behind bars for Women In Cages. In Women In Cages, Grier plays the sadistic warden for once, a pot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equipped torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The 'New Fish' (a recent inmate, for you prison film novices), a ditzy blonde ex-stripper called Alabama, has taken the heroin possession rap for her pimp boyfriend. She knows too much, so the pimp blackmails her cellmates to execute her. A competent and well-shot entry in the tropical prison genre from Filipino director Gerry De Leon, it places the embittered ex-addict and prostitute Grier in the position of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the plantation with obvious ironic glee.