Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA criminal attempts insurance fraud and diamond heist. His girlfriend kills him, gets imprisoned, and undergoes involuntary electric shock treatments.A criminal attempts insurance fraud and diamond heist. His girlfriend kills him, gets imprisoned, and undergoes involuntary electric shock treatments.A criminal attempts insurance fraud and diamond heist. His girlfriend kills him, gets imprisoned, and undergoes involuntary electric shock treatments.
Martine Stedil
- Martine
- (as Martine Steed)
Jesús Franco
- Bill
- (as Clifford Brown)
Joëlle Le Quément
- Cora
- (as Joëlle Le Quement)
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It's not at all surprising that, along with Lucio Fulci, Jess Franco has the honour of being the director with the most films on the official Video Nasty list: with virtually his entire filmography consisting of exploitative trash designed to either titillate or offend through explicit sex, torture and gore, his work was bound to be targeted during the Draconian days of Mary Whitehouse and James Ferman. What is surprising, though, is that given today's more relaxed attitude to sex and violence in film, Women Behind Bars still remains unavailable in the UK to this day.
Barring a couple of unconvincing scenes of torture (some laughable whipping and that old WIP classic, the electrodes on the genitalia), Women Behind Bars contains very little to get to get in lather about. It's chock full of full frontal female nudity of course (including Jess' trademark close-up crotch shots), and contains one lesbian tryst (between lovely Lina Romay and sexy blonde Martine Stedil), but with the director devoting more time and attention than usual to something vaguely resembling a plot, the general level of depravity is a few notches lower than your average Franco flick and nowhere near as shocking as one might expect given the film's notoriety.
This relative tameness, combined with Franco's usual lack of technical prowess (his direction and camera-work is wildly erratic; the action moves like an arthritic sloth on Xanax), atrocious dialogue and lousy acting, makes the film a real chore to get through. Maybe that's why it hasn't had a UK DVD release yet: nobody thinks it would be worth the effort.
Barring a couple of unconvincing scenes of torture (some laughable whipping and that old WIP classic, the electrodes on the genitalia), Women Behind Bars contains very little to get to get in lather about. It's chock full of full frontal female nudity of course (including Jess' trademark close-up crotch shots), and contains one lesbian tryst (between lovely Lina Romay and sexy blonde Martine Stedil), but with the director devoting more time and attention than usual to something vaguely resembling a plot, the general level of depravity is a few notches lower than your average Franco flick and nowhere near as shocking as one might expect given the film's notoriety.
This relative tameness, combined with Franco's usual lack of technical prowess (his direction and camera-work is wildly erratic; the action moves like an arthritic sloth on Xanax), atrocious dialogue and lousy acting, makes the film a real chore to get through. Maybe that's why it hasn't had a UK DVD release yet: nobody thinks it would be worth the effort.
This video nastie was banned in Britain and never released.
No, it wasn't for Jesus Franco's propensity for plenty of full frontal nudity, including his own wife, Lina Romay. After all, they have made over 100 films together, and I am sure moviegoers know her as well as he does.
No, it was the application of the old "Tucker Telephone." I don't know if Franco got the idea from the Tucker prison farm in Arkansas, or from Generalissimo Franco, but the application of electrical wires to his wife's vagina and the electrical current was too much for the Brits.
Yes, there is a poorly done lesbian scene (only one), and the women in prison all slept naked, but that gets to be a bore after a while. Mostly people just smoked and talked. Pretty boring.
No, it wasn't for Jesus Franco's propensity for plenty of full frontal nudity, including his own wife, Lina Romay. After all, they have made over 100 films together, and I am sure moviegoers know her as well as he does.
No, it was the application of the old "Tucker Telephone." I don't know if Franco got the idea from the Tucker prison farm in Arkansas, or from Generalissimo Franco, but the application of electrical wires to his wife's vagina and the electrical current was too much for the Brits.
Yes, there is a poorly done lesbian scene (only one), and the women in prison all slept naked, but that gets to be a bore after a while. Mostly people just smoked and talked. Pretty boring.
Shirley (Lina Romay) ends up in a maximum security prison after shooting her boyfriend dead. Said boyfriend happened to have been a murdering thief who had just stolen millions of dollars worth of diamonds.
Shirley is soon located by a man who is very interested in recovering the stolen diamonds. He watches through binoculars as the story in the prison unfolds. He eventually visits Shirley, but who cares about him anyway?
Inside, the warden of the unusually posh penitentiary wears a black turtleneck, looking like a sort of beatnik Tom Savini. He's a standard pervert out to "help" the female inmates as often as he possibly can.
This is a Jess Franco film, so these inmates are all impossibly beautiful, and constantly seeking out reasons to shed their burdensome clothes. Not that there's all that much clothing to worry about, since the prison uniforms consist of long shirts, high heels, and no pants.
There is, of course, the obligatory torture to accentuate the rampant nudity. The merciless warden likes to watch the whippings like the heinous ghoul he is. He's downright giddy when Shirley is chained to the terrible "hot seat"!
There are also plenty of adult situations that give Franco ample opportunity to... zoom in.
Though dull and talky in spots, this movie still outshines Franco's 99 WOMEN, and the the "turning of the tables" finale isn't bad at all...
Shirley is soon located by a man who is very interested in recovering the stolen diamonds. He watches through binoculars as the story in the prison unfolds. He eventually visits Shirley, but who cares about him anyway?
Inside, the warden of the unusually posh penitentiary wears a black turtleneck, looking like a sort of beatnik Tom Savini. He's a standard pervert out to "help" the female inmates as often as he possibly can.
This is a Jess Franco film, so these inmates are all impossibly beautiful, and constantly seeking out reasons to shed their burdensome clothes. Not that there's all that much clothing to worry about, since the prison uniforms consist of long shirts, high heels, and no pants.
There is, of course, the obligatory torture to accentuate the rampant nudity. The merciless warden likes to watch the whippings like the heinous ghoul he is. He's downright giddy when Shirley is chained to the terrible "hot seat"!
There are also plenty of adult situations that give Franco ample opportunity to... zoom in.
Though dull and talky in spots, this movie still outshines Franco's 99 WOMEN, and the the "turning of the tables" finale isn't bad at all...
Women Behind Bars (1975)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Jess Franco women in prison flick, which deals more with a robbery than the actual prison. A woman (Lina Romay) gets six years in prison after killing her jewel thief boyfriend. Once behind bars she has all sorts of wicked people trying to get her to tell where the boyfriend hid the diamonds before she shot him. This is a somewhat interesting film since Franco decided to concentrate more on the jewels rather than the behind the bars stuff. There's still some dirty moments including tons of nudity, a lesbian scene and a couple torture sequences but this is still fairly clear for a Franco WIP film. Romay has never been accused of being a good actress but she fits her role fine here and she's certainly cute so watching her naked isn't a problem. Franco himself plays a gangster in the film, which is a role he did quite often during this time frame. This is the movie Franco shot at the same time and on the same sets as the bigger budgeted Barbed Wire Dolls, which is one of the all time greats of the genre.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Jess Franco women in prison flick, which deals more with a robbery than the actual prison. A woman (Lina Romay) gets six years in prison after killing her jewel thief boyfriend. Once behind bars she has all sorts of wicked people trying to get her to tell where the boyfriend hid the diamonds before she shot him. This is a somewhat interesting film since Franco decided to concentrate more on the jewels rather than the behind the bars stuff. There's still some dirty moments including tons of nudity, a lesbian scene and a couple torture sequences but this is still fairly clear for a Franco WIP film. Romay has never been accused of being a good actress but she fits her role fine here and she's certainly cute so watching her naked isn't a problem. Franco himself plays a gangster in the film, which is a role he did quite often during this time frame. This is the movie Franco shot at the same time and on the same sets as the bigger budgeted Barbed Wire Dolls, which is one of the all time greats of the genre.
Woman behind bars, directed by Jess Franco(as Rick Deconnink)is basically an exploitation film set in a woman's prison. The film has several of Franco's trademarks such as lots of full frontal nudity and woman being tortured in a number of ways. One such torture scene involves the star Lina Romay, who in reality is the wife of Jess Franco, having live electrodes applied to her breasts and genitals.
Because of these torture scenes the film was placed on the DPP video nasty list. Eventually the film was removed from the list but the film has never been re-released.
In the film Romay murders her boyfriend to steal his hoard of diamonds, but she winds up in prison in the hands of a sadistic warden and his guards The film would appeal to fans of Franco's directing style and also fans of exploitation films especially the woman in prison sub genre.
Because of these torture scenes the film was placed on the DPP video nasty list. Eventually the film was removed from the list but the film has never been re-released.
In the film Romay murders her boyfriend to steal his hoard of diamonds, but she winds up in prison in the hands of a sadistic warden and his guards The film would appeal to fans of Franco's directing style and also fans of exploitation films especially the woman in prison sub genre.
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThe film was one of 72 titles banned in the UK as a video nasty by the DPP.
- PifiasThe car used in the robbery at the beginning is the same car used at the end of the film by Lina Romay after she's come out of prison.
- ConexionesFeatured in Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)
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