Review of Prison Girls

Prison Girls (1972)
3/10
Female Prisoners on a Weekend Pass
29 February 2016
This movie essentially begins with a shower scene--which is almost obligatory for women-in-prison (WIP) films-that quickly escalates into an all-female brawl. However, upon being taken to the warden they discover that their infraction of the rules has in no way jeopardized their weekend furlough which is typically granted to inmates who have only a few months remaining on their sentence. The reason behind the furlough is to see whether these women can adapt to civilian life upon being released. Anyway, having been locked up for a great while these 6 women immediately gravitate to the men they left behind. It's at this point that the movie focuses on the sexual circumstances each of these women encounter. For example, the first scenario involves a female prisoner named "Kay Rivers" (Jacqueline Giroux) who was a prostitute prior to her incarceration and returns to her pimp boyfriend, "Mike" (Jason Williams). Unfortunately, when she gets there she discovers that Mike has adapted quite well without her and has a couple of other young ladies as competitors for his affections as well. That being the case, Kay realizes that she has to do something about the situation and she ends up doing exactly that. The next scenario involves a woman known simply as "Frank's wife" (Barbara Mills) who was frigid prior to entering prison and believes that if she can have an orgasm with her husband that it will solve all of their marital problems. As might be expected the scenes involving the other prisoners have their own individual characteristics as well. In any case, this movie was plagued by its low-budget nature which resulted in a very shallow plot, sub-standard acting and a poorly written script. As a matter of fact, about the only thing going for this movie was the presence of a couple of fairly attractive actresses most notably Uschi Digard (as "Cindy") and to a lesser extent the aforementioned Barbara Mills. All things considered then I rate this movie as below average.
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