This is another one of those guilty pleasures I've spoken of before... a truly awful plot but lot's of damsel-in-distress action... Escape From Women's Prison was on the big screen the first time I saw it... I might have missed it, but I'd seen everything else at the theater... and when you've got a night off the base (during my military time), you find something to do...

The Plot

This is a tough section to write, because I can only tell you what I think the plot was supposed to be. The story didn't always follow the dialog... think some of the early Bruce Lee movies, where the mouth is still moving 3 seconds after the words stop...

The apparent plot... involved an... (have you guessed this part yet?) Escape From (a) Women's Prison! Four "dangerous" women escape. There are, in no particular order...

A) The obvious bull-dyke mad-dog killer.
B) The Pathetic-Promiscuous-Nympho mad-dog killer.
C) The Mousy-Wouldn't-Hurt-A-Fly mad-dog killer.
D) The leader... who is not only sane, but doesn't want to hurt anybody, who's brother was seriously wounded helping them escape...

When their get-away vehicle breaks down, they hi-jack a bus-load of Female Tennis players and their Male coach. Using these girls as hostages, they decide to hide-out... at the house of the judge who put them away! (I am not making this up!)

The Hostage Situation

The tennis players are locked up in a dungeon-of-a-basement that the judge has in his house. His wife is away, and the escapees lock him alone in his study... He is terrified of the women... and rightly so, because they do not like him.

Meanwhile, the nympho of the bunch decides it's been too long since she has had a man... and opts for the Tennis Coach. She seduces him, which is not too hard to do since she's the second cutest of the prisoners... but after satiating himself on her feminine treasures, he knocks her unconscious with a Karate chop... and dresses and sneaks out of the room and building...

But he doesn't get far. The other women catch on and chase him and then threaten to kill the girls if he doesn't come back.

Trip to Town

Since her brother is dying, the leader of this group of fugitives takes the judge and forces him to drive to town and buy medical supplies for her. Along the way, he begins to put his hand on her knee and such... to which she offers to kill him if he can't keep his hand to himself. (At least that's what the American dialog said...)

At the drug store, supplies are bought... and the judge manages to slip a note to the cashier... who doesn't read it... and off to the house they return...

Some time later, the judge's note is found and the police are dispatched to surround his house and begin negotiations for the release of the Tennis players and the judge...

Once Too Often

The coach is summoned for another round of sex with the Nympho... and tries the ol' Karate trick again... but is shot and killed... having failed to escape.

His body is carried outside by the convicts, to prove their seriousness about killing the hostages.

Revolt

The Bull-Dyke (Remember this is a review of what I saw, I'm not making judgements...) decides she wants to lead this group... the leader's compassion for her brother is making her weak... and the other convicts help to overpower their leader and lock her in the room with the judge. The brother is killed trying to defend his sister... and now the judge and the only real babe of the four are alone...

This is probably where the dialog is most apparently different from what was originally said... because the judge begins shaking and slapping the escaped convict-chick... violently abusing her while telling her that she needs to shape up and lead the other women to give themselves up. He ends up knocking her to the floor, unconscious, where he stradles her and boasts how he's in charge again.

The judge caves in to his own animal instincts, and begins to strip the helpless girl. She wakes and begins to fight him and he slams her head several times on the floor, until she is out cold for the duration... then he begins to slowly remove her clothes...

Taking his time, he then mounts and rapes her... with her waking up and trying desperately to get him off of her...

After The Loving

After the rape, the judge sits across from the girl, watching her trying to piece herself back together. She is joining the others in a lunatic attempt to rush the police and escape. A black tennis player decides to join them in their suicide since one of their members has gotten killed already.

The judge tries to talk her out of it... evidently guilty, or maybe wanting to keep her around for more alone time... but she leaves.

There is the sound of a rush of gunfire... and the police then enter the building and tell the captives that they are free...

And now so are we...

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Thanks for reading...

Joe

(Note: I only saw Escape From Women's Prison as a single VHS and on the big screen. I have never seen Sweet Sugar, so have not reviewed it...)

Recommended:
Yes

Viewing Format: VHS
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older