Roger Corman's second film for the Woolner brothers is similarly female-crim-centric and doesn't have locations but has a better writer, Charles Griffith. It's about a female gang determined to get revenge when one of their member wind up dead.
It could have done with more trashy girl gang action than melodrama - like Thunder Over Hawaii and Beast from the Haunted Cave, come to think of it. There's lots of characters set up - a daughter of a cop, a sister of a woman who seems to be a mistress. a Mexican American who suffers persecution, a woman whose dad is sleeping around... but not really developed. This could have done with another draft or two and thirty more minutes.
I felt gypped there wasn't a big inter girl fight. Some groovy slang- wish they'd be more. This is the sort of film you keep wishing was better. They should remake it,
Handling competent rather than inspired. Barbara Mouris pops up. The lead is Fay Spain who isn't that great. Nicely shot. Richard Devon is a cop.
Corman clearly liked being around women. I think they complained less and were less confrontational. Still, these actors rarely played better parts.
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