Monday, February 14, 2011

Movie review – “The Big Bust Out” (1973) **

This Italy-German women in prison film doesn’t waste any time – within the first ten minutes there’s a lesbian love scene, a cat fight, an anal search, a reforming nun. The nun gets some girl prisoners transferred to an abbey, where there are lecherous Arab guards (I think this is meant to be set in Turkey) from which they promptly escape by dressing up as nuns; the good nun goes along with him as she’s responsible for them. They get betrayed and are kidnapped by some crooks who sell then into slavery. They subsequently escape with the help of a (male) crim with a conscience and go on the lam… although that doesn’t stop them from being mass raped by bandits. They wind up captured in some big baddie castle at the end, enabling some of the girls to dress up in sexy harem outfits, until the fight back... the nun winds up machine gunning people.

This is a deliriously over-the-top, never-a-dull moment, crappy exploitationer. It doesn’t spend that much time in prison – the film is really about the escape. Some of the acting isn’t too bad – the best role is the nun, mainly because she’s a nun and they keep her a nun for most of the running time. Plenty of nude swims for those who are into that sort of thing. The credits say this is a “Filmgroup International” movie – it was actually picked up by New World.

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