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Their bodies were caged, but not their desires. They would do anything for a man - or to him. morePlot:
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Very good for its genre moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Judith M. Brown | ... | Collier (as Judy Brown) |
| Roberta Collins | ... | Alcott |
 | Pam Grier | ... | Grear |
| Brooke Mills | ... | Harrad |
| Pat Woodell | ... | Bodine |
 | Sid Haig | ... | Harry |
| Christiane Schmidtmer | ... | Miss Dietrich |
| Kathryn Loder | ... | Lucian |
| Jerry Franks | ... | Fred |
| Gina Stuart | ... | Ferina |
| Jack Davis | ... | Dr. Phillips |
| Letty Mirasol | ... | Leyte |
| Shirley de las Alas | ... | Guard |
| Myrna De Vera | ||
| Siony Cordona |
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Bamboo Dolls HouseWomen's Penitentiary
Women's Penitentiary III (USA) (video title)
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Director Jack Hill named the sadistic prison warden "Dietrich" after German producer Erwin C. Dietrich, with whom Hill had had a very unpleasant experience after Dietrich hired him to shoot a film in Switzerland. moreSoundtrack:
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What separates - and, in my book, makes better - "The Big Doll House" from most Women-In-Prison films is that the focus here is NOT on the exploitation of the women (though there is some of that, of course), but on their STRENGTH and determination. Roberta Collins and Pat Woodell, in particular, have well-defined characters that know how to take care of themselves. The fights (including some mud-wrestling) are rough and wild. The casting is excellent: you know something is right when Pam Grier isn't even the most beautiful woman on the screen! Collins, in particular, has a kind of beauty that you rarely see nowadays. Contrary to what other people have said, I found the scenes involving Sid Haig and his partner to be the most undesirable: they do provide some form of comic relief but they go on too long and occasionally kill the pace of the movie. (**1/2)