The Big Doll House (1971)

The Big Doll House: Directed by Jack Hill. With Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Brooke Mills. Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of two male fruit vendors.

“After killing her rich husband a woman by the name of u0026quot;Collieru0026quot; (Judith Brown) is sentenced to 99 years at hard labor at a womenu0026#39;s prison somewhere deep in the Philippine jungle. She is put in a cell with 5 other beautiful women who go by the names of u0026quot;Alcottu0026quot; (Roberta Collins), u0026quot;Bodineu0026quot; (Pat Woodell), u0026quot;Grearu0026quot; (Pam Greer), u0026quot;Harradu0026quot; (Brooke Mills) and u0026quot;Ferinau0026quot;(Gina Stuart). While each of them have their own story to tell they all share one particular view which is that the head guard, u0026quot;Lucianu0026quot; (Kathryn Loder) is extremely sadistic and the attractive warden u0026quot;Miss Dietrichu0026quot;(Christiane Schmidtmer) is either incompetent or ambivalent to the torture and abuse within the prison. Yet although a recently assigned doctor named u0026quot;Dr. Phillipsu0026quot; (Jack Davis) is trying to correct the problem the inmates decide to take matters into their own hands and attempt to escape. Now, rather than detailing all of the events that transpire and risk spoiling the movie for those who havenu0026#39;t seen it I will just say that this was an interesting low-budget u0026quot;Women-in-Prisonu0026quot; film which covered most of the main aspects associated with movies of this type. It certainly had more than its share of gorgeous women. And while I certainly canu0026#39;t complain about that the fact is that the overall plot was a bit too u0026quot;by the numbersu0026quot; and lacked credibility. No doubt fans of this genre will find it enjoyable though and overall I rate it as slightly above average.”