Jailhouse Wardress

Thank you

Utter rubbish cut to pieces ,bits of movie cut together to make a different film missing all the best sequences don't bother with this dross!

Not the best French film. The transfer is grainy.

Avoid at all costs. Don't be tempted... a hideous mishmash of scenes from other movies plus heavens knows what? Total rubbish!

I always try and view a film unspoiled by reviews or opinions. It doesn't take long in this instance to feel the cold shadow of familiarity, and this only grows stronger as the 75 minutes roll along. There's a reason for this - Director Alain Deruelle, for reasons probably linked to finance (or lack of it), has cobbled together an original opening scene and followed it with many scenes used in other such exploitation films (Hitler's Last Train, Captive Women 4 and especially memorable swathes from Jess Franco's Barbed Wire Dolls) to create a truly incomprehensible parade of incarceration, rape (often accompanied by a jaunty jazzy score), lesbianism and squalid surroundings. These scenes have been redubbed in order to create some semblance of linear story, but the result doesn't make a lot of sense.The opening scene, involving Nazi machinations, makes way for individual stories featuring familiar faces including delightful and talented actresses Lina Romay, Pamela Stanford, Martine Stedil and Monica Swinn(e); the latter plays a savage prison warden wearing a monocle but, alas, no trousers. Close-ups of Monica slick-back-haired, scowling bear a slight resemblance to a latter-day Joan Ferguson from Prisoner Cell Block H.The idea is to tell of each woman's backstory to explain why they have been incarcerated, but as some of them never actually meet, any sense of cohesion is lost. Who are all these people? If this is your first encounter with this film, or any of the others that make up the majority of the footage, you may think it has a cast of thousands. Which in a sense it has.I cannot review this without mentioning the slow motion Franco footage featuring Jess and Lina; the scene is notorious with Franco and exploitation enthusiasts for its hilarity, and the fact that it is being re-used here is a massive (and welcome) middle-finger to those who have derided it!Of the performers, Stanford's sense of fun shines through the dubbing, Swinn is delightfully eccentric and Romay and Stedil are barely featured. Fun though this is, they all deserve better.It would take a sharper brain than mine to identify which scenes are from which film, and an even sharper one to make sense of it all. Perhaps best to view it as a typically tasteless 'best-of' collection, reminiscent of those 1970s 'Top of the Pops' albums featuring sub-standard versions of popular songs sung by session performers.Depending on your point of view, 'Jailhouse Wardress' is either a confusing mess, or one of the most magnificent examples of its type."What are we going to do now?" "Let's get undressed."

product was ok