Review of Policewomen (1974) by Richard D — 09 Jul 2018
Sondra Currie stars as a policewoman given a plum assignment after she foils a break out attempt by a bunch of women in lock-up. Somebody is smuggling gold and she is supposed to go undercover to help break up the operation.
Sort of ... the plot is set up pretty clearly, but then unfolds at such a leisurely pace that it becomes a bit vague. She's supposed to be going undercover, but she spends a long time hanging out on a boat in Catalina with her macho partner .
.. and then they have sex ... and then the film remembers that there's supposed to be a police plot going on. The villain is an old woman with a young, kind of ugly muscular boyfriend who employs a small army of bikini clad women to smuggle gold.
This doesn't make a ton of sense, but Elizabeth Stuart is pretty amazing as the ruthless old woman running this operation. Writer/director Lee Frost is kind of like a low rent Jack Hill, and that pretty much sums up this film.
It's pack full of stuff that would be awesome in a Hill film, and is pretty damn okay here. William Smith has a cool cameo as a karate instructor who gets the tar kicked out of him by Currie.
This review of Policewomen (1974) was written by Richard D on 09 Jul 2018.
Policewomen has generally received negative reviews.
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