Review of The Big Doll House (1971) by Donald W — 25 Dec 2013

This is the first of Rodger Corman's "Women in Prison" series with Pam Grier. It's the best of the group. The story is simple. There is no background story. They get right to the women being taken to prison.

There are plenty of nude women. Pam Grier is hot in just a sleeveless T-shirt dress and a prison smock. The whole premise of the story of American women in a Philippine prison seems unlikely. The cover of the DVD box for the movie Women in Cages is actually from this movie.

There is very little background music and very little actual dialog. This movie is probably the source of mud wrestling. There a cool scene of Pam Grier wrestling Roberta Collins in a rice paddy. The action at the end during the women escaping is over the top.

The guns shoot more bullets than they could hold. The only guns used are old World War II grease guns and a few revolvers.