White Heat

Starring:James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Wally Cassell, Fred Clark, Norman Leary, John Pickard, Garrett Craig, Jim Toney, George Taylor, John Butler, Fern Eggen, Paul Guilfoyle, Sherry Hall, Jack Worth, Art Miles, Jim Thorpe
Director: Raoul Walsh, Richard L. Bare, Chuck Jones
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Top of the World
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A powerful and exciting film

White Heat
Starring: James Cagney , Virginia Mayo , Edmond O'Brien , Margaret Wycherly , and Steve Cochran
Director: Raoul Walsh , Richard L. Bare , and Chuck Jones
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ASIN: B0006HBV3C
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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Cagney at his best.......2007-03-22

I believe this was Cagney's signature movie as a gangter. It shows that crime doesn't pay and that gangters were usually wired differently than other people. Sometimes they were mental cases like Cody Garrett was in this movie. He was a criminal that could kill as easily as eating, no conscience, no regret. Very realistic with psycho killers in these days. He should have one an oscar for this film. It shows how law enforcement befriends criminals to catch them. It is a classic film in under-cover work. Years ahead of it's time. Great movie!

Top of the World.......2007-03-09

Terrific Cagney at his best. This is an "Oldie" but will never be outdated. If its desired to see when acting was Priority ONE in Hollywood, WHITE HEAT is your meat

Not all that good........2006-12-27

Not a huge fan of James Cagney or gangster movies, and nothing about White Heat has changed that opinion. Lame plot, corny dialogue, and just plain bad acting constantly had me cringing. In it's day this movie was no different than the generic blow-em'-up action/adventure movies that Hollywood has churned out en masse in more recent decades. Hardly what I would consider to be a classic.

COMMENTARY BY THE BRILLIANT AND INSIGHTFUL DR. DREW CASPER.......2006-11-25

Don't you dare forget that Dr. Drew Casper has written many film books, is writing a couple film books and is brilliant and insightful. He's the head of the film dept at USC. Dr. Drew Casper chairs a film immeritus board and is brilliant and insightful. Don't forget that Dr. Drew Casper is brilliant and insightful because Dr. Drew Casper makes bunches of brilliant and insightful comments only Dr. Drew Casper could make.

Don't ask Dr. Drew Casper to heal your leg he's not that kind of Dr. He's the kind of Dr. who sits in and ivory tower, writing papers and making sure the little people don't forget that Dr. Drew Casper is brilliant and insightful.

This guy is obnoxious. It took me about two thirds of the movie to become inured to his saccharine comments. He absolutely loves the "character" Cody Jarrett. Almost salivates in his admiration of the "character" Cody Jarrett. His admiration of this muderer is a sign that Dr. Drew Casper has known no adventure or rites of passage other than the passages in his books and papers.

If you can get past he jittery obsessive personality, he does make a few "insightful" comments. By the way, this is a great movie.

A powerful and exciting film.......2006-08-22

This is one great film. It starts with a bang and never lets up. You'd be hard pressed to find a better piece of film noir, and it has really stood the test of time. At the center of it all is James Cagney, whose character and performance are as ruthlessly cold-blooded and crazy as nearly any character in film history.

Neither Cagney or the script ever compromise in their portrayal of the life and death of the main character. Yet, for all his flaws and malignant danger, he somehow comes across as sympathetic to some degree. An impressive feat.

This really is a great film, and anyone who likes classics, gangster, or noir cinema should definitely own it.

The Warner Gangsters Collection (The Public Enemy / White Heat / Angels with Dirty Faces / Little Caesar / The Petrified Forest / The Roaring Twenties)

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FIve classic gangster flicks
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ASIN: B0006HBV3M
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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For a knock-out combination of timeless entertainment and vintage studio history, you can't do much better than The Warner Brothers Gangsters Collection. In the 1930s and '40s, Paramount specialized in glossy comedies, MGM popularized lavish musicals, Universal produced signature horror classics, and Fox scored hits with sophisticated dramas. But it was Warner Bros. that generated controversy--if not always box-office profits--with so-called "social problem" films, and that meant gangsters. When viewed in their pre- and post-Prohibition context and in chronological order (Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, 1931; The Petrified Forest, 1936; Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938; The Roaring Twenties, 1939; White Heat, 1949), these six films definitively capture Warners' domination of the mobster genre, and to varying degrees, they all qualify as classics.

With its stilted visuals and pulpy plot, Little Caesar remains stuck in the stiff, early-sound era, but it's still a prototypical powerhouse, with Edward G. Robinson's titular "Rico" setting the stage for all screen gangsters to follow. The Public Enemy made James Cagney a star (who can forget him smashing a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face?), and Humphrey Bogart repeats his Broadway success in The Petrified Forest, a stagy adaptation of Robert Sherwood's play, still enjoyable for Bogey's ever-threatening malevolence. Then it's a Cagney triple-threat in Angels (with Pat O'Brien), racketeering in The Roaring Twenties (with Bogart), and especially the jailbird classic White Heat, with a fiery finale and an exit line ("Made it Ma! Top o' the world!") that epitomized Cagney's iconic, tough-guy image. In many ways Cagney was Warner Bros., and this Gangsters Collection pays enduring tribute to him and the important films that forged the studio's rugged reputation. --Jeff Shannon

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The Public Enemy showcases James Cagney's powerful 1931 breakthrough performance as streetwise tough guy Tom Powers. When shooting began, Cagney had a secondary role but Zanuck soon spotted Cagney's screen dominance and gave him the star part. From that moment, an indelible genre classic and an enduring star career were both born.

As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney - older, scarier and just as elctrifying - gives a performance to match his work in The Public Enemy as White Heat's cold-blooded Cody Jarrett. Bracingly directed by Raoul Walsh, this fast-paced thriller tracing Jarrett's violent life in and out of jail is also a harrowing character study. Jarrett is a psychological time bomb ruled by impulse. It is among the most vivid screen performances of Cagney's career, and the excitement it generates will put you on top of the world!

In Angels with Dirty Faces, Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. The 1938 New York Film Critics Best Actor Award came Cagney's way, as well as one of the film's three Oscar nominations. Watch the chilling death-row finale and you'll know why.

"R-I-C-O, Little Caesar, that's who!" Edward G. Robinson bellowed into the phone. And Hollywood got the message: 37-year-old Robinson, not gifted with matinee-idol looks, was nonetheless a first-class star and moviegoers hailed the hard-hitting social consciousness dramas that became the Depression-era mainstay of Warner Bros.

Little Caesar is the tale of pugnacious Caesar Enrico Bandello, a hoodlum with a Chicago-sized chip on his shoulder, few attachments, fewer friends and no sense of underworld diplomacy. And Robinson - a genteel art collector who disdained guns (in the movie, his eyelids were taped to keep them from blinking when he fired a pistol) - was forever associated with the screen's archetypal gangster.

A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage.

The Petrified Forest, Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway success about survival of the fittest, hit the screen a year later with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart magnificently recreating their stage roles and Bette Davis ably reteaming with her Of Human Bondage co-star Howard. Sherwood first wanted Bogart for a smaller role. "I thought Sherwood was right," Bogart said. "I couldn't picture myself playing a gangster. So what happened? I made a hit as the gangster." So right was he that Howard refused to make the film without him...and helped launch Bogie's brilliant movie career.

In The Roaring Twenties, the speakeasy era never roared louder than in this gangland chronicle that packs a wallop under action master Raoul Walsh's direction. Against a backdrop of newsreel-like montages and narration, it follows the life of jobless war veteran Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) who turns bootlegger, dealing in "bottles instead of battles." Battles await Eddie within and without his growing empire. Outside are territorial feuds and gangland bloodlettings. Inside is the treachery of his double-dealing associate (Humphrey Bogart). It would be 10 years before Cagney played another gangster (in White Heat), a time in which gangster movies themselves became rare. "He used to be a big shot," Panama Smith (Gladys George) says at the finale, marking Bartlett's demise...and signaling the end of Hollywood's focus on the gangster era.

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The prototype of a well-done boxed set.......2007-05-14

Kudos to Warner Home Video for the loving treatment they gave these six classic films from their vaults. Every film gets the Warner Night at the Movies treatment with a newsreel, a trailer, a vintage short subject, and a cartoon each from the year in which the movie was made. Plus there are commentary tracks for all of the films. I liked watching each film through first without the track, and then listening to them with the track turned on for insight into the stars and the style of the film. In addition to this you get the following featurettes:

Little Caesar - "End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero"
Public Enemy - "Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public"
Petrified Forest - "Menace in the Desert". There is also a radio adaptation featuring Humphrey Bogart, Tyrone Power, and Joan Bennett.
Angels with Dirty Faces - "Whaddaya Hear? Whaddaya Say?". This also has an audio-only radio production.
The Roaring Twenties - "The World Moves On"
White Heat - "Top of the World"

It's interesting to compare the three stars of these movies - Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, and Humphrey Bogart - and their styles in each of these movies. "Little Caesar" and "Public Enemy" were made when prohibition was still in effect and gangland crime was still a big problem. Thus Robinson and Cagney each play remorseless criminals with no redeeming values whatsoever. Robinson's Rico is less physical than Cagney's Tom Powers, though. You believe that either one of them would shoot you without a second thought. However, Cagney's Powers is scarier because the real fear is that he would beat you to a pulp for the fun of it and THEN shoot you.

"The Petrified Forest" is not your typical gangster film, with Leslie Howard's vagabond being the real star in what amounts to an improbable romance set against the backdrop of the desperation of the Great Depression which the desert setting seems to signify. This 1936 film has Bogart as Duke Mantee, a gangster on the run, in what amounts to a supporting role. However, you do get to see all of the traits that made Bogart great when he got the opportunity to seize the lead in later roles. And to think they almost cast him as the filling station attendant in this one!

In 1938's "Angels with Dirty Faces" and 1939's "The Roaring Twenties" Cagney is again playing the lead gangster and Humphrey Bogart plays a supporting role in both films. With prohibition long over, though, these movies make Cagney's gangster more three-dimensional, showing him to even be a self-sacrificing character at times as well as a killer. Both movies bother to show that had circumstances been a little different, he might not have even become a criminal in the first place.

1949's "White Heat" shows the influence of film noir that was so popular in the 40's an 50's. Here, Cagney's gangster persona has come full circle back to the viciousness of Tom Powers in "Public Enemy". The big difference is that in this film Cagney's mother is no cream puff. She is, in fact, probably a bigger criminal in thought if not in deed than Cagney's Cody Jarrett. This final gangster film of the six shows technology and thus the law gaining on the criminal, with electronic gadgets and undercover lawmen with college degrees in psychology replacing the determined hard-boiled detectives and beat cops of the past. It very much looks forward to the Dragnet series that is to emerge in the 50's.

In summary, this is just a terrific package and basically acts as a complete course on the gangster film as genre. All studios should stand up and take notice of how Warner Home Video put this set together. Highly recommended.

FIve classic gangster flicks.......2007-01-31

Five classic gangster films from the glory days of Warner Bros.

Granted, "gangster film" isn't the most appropriate description of 1936's "The Petrified Forest," the film based on Sherwood Anderson's talky philosophical play, but if not for the dynamic presence of Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee, the "prestigious" production starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis would likely now be relegated to the same vault that stores "She Loved a Fireman" (with Ann Sheridan) and other forgotten drek from the same period. It was this film that established Bogart as a valuable supporting player on the Warner lot, a position he would occupy until 1940's "High Sierra" made him a top star.

James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson would achieve stardom almost a decade earlier than Bogart with their breakthrough roles in 1931's "Public Enemy" and "Little Caesar" respectively. Directed by William Wellman, the former film holds up quite well despite the somewhat wooden performances of the supporting cast, whereas the latter is too stagy for its own good and remains of interest primarily for Robinson's dynamic performance.

1938's "Angels with Dirty Faces" and 1939's "The Roaring Twenties" are notable for pairing Cagney with Bogart, as adversaries in the former, and as partners, at least for a time, in the latter. Both are highly entertaining with "Angels" benefiting from the casting of the Dead End Kids.

The best film in this set, however, is 1948's "White Heat" with Cagney as Cody Jarrett who makes it to the "top of the world" only to have it blow up in his face. Jarrett ranks with Cagney's portrayal of George M. Cohen in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as his finest performance.

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Kudos for one of the best boxed sets ever.......2007-01-19

While all 6 titles in this set are worthy ones, the four Cagney entries are the ones that are the real jewels and make his claim to the throne of king of the classic gangsters. "White Heat" features his finest and most memorable characterization, a masterpiece of curdled mother love. Warner Brothers is currently giving Criterion a run for its money as the best producer of lovingly restored and well-packaged films on DVD.

Fabulous value, hours of fun.......2006-12-29

It doesn't get much better than this. Settle down with some popcorn, snuggle into your most comfy chair and get ready for hours of entertainment. The transfers of these DVD's are exceptional, especially on The Roaring Twenties and Angels with Dirty Faces. The quality of the other films is slightly less impressive, but still quite acceptable. Remember we're dealing with 75 year old films in the case of Little Caesar and Public Enemy. The audio transfers are also quite good.

The heart of the set is the magnificent 1949 classic, White Heat. This is my favorite gangster movie because of the psycopathic character, Cody Jarret. What a portrayal! Never in movie history has their such a intricately neurotic, mommy-obsessed, gun-toting murderer as Cody. Nobody else but Cagney could have pulled off this performance, which hasn't lost a beat in the intervening 55 years. The interplay between Cody and his mother is the stuff of legend. There isn't one unnecessary or boring moment in White Heat, it is magnificent.

One great thing about this release is that a new generation can grow to love and appreciate the talent of James Cagney. He dominates these films and he's as fresh and lovable as he was back in the 30's. His screen presence jumps out at you and even when he plays a thug, ya gotta love him. His charisma is palpable.

The weak movie here (and one which doesn't quite fit), is Petrified Forest, with Bogie's breakout performance. I would have preferred a George Raft movie in its place. Bogart's performances in the Cagney films is always as a cringing second banana and it's interesting to watch how Jimmy utterly dominates their screen pairing. They made three movies together and it's no surprise that Cagney guns down Bogie in every one!

Little Caesar now seems dated and the supporting cast is generally forgettable, especially the insipid Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Edward G. Robinson is fabulous, as he always was, but the movie suffers the malady of most early talkers: overacting or over direction.

The extras on this DVD set are exceptional, especially the "Warner Bros. at the Movies." These contain a newsreel, a short, a cartoon and finally, the feature film itself. It allows the viewer to vicariously live through the 1930's. A real pleasure! My highest recommendation.

Great Value collection.......2006-07-24

Since Warner Brohters were famous for their gangster films, a boxed set of the most famous was logical and welcome. This set contains the best and most famous of those fims. More detailed reviews of each film can be viewed under their individual titles. By way of a quick summary:

- In 1930, "Little Ceasar" is the film based on the story of Al Capone which made Edward G Robinson a star but the film is antique and almost unwatchable today except for Robinson's towering performance.
- "The Public Enemy", made in 1931, was James Cagney's starmaking role and is very well directed by William Wellman.
- "The Petrified Forest" from 1936 is a film version of the play using Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart from the original Broadway production. Bogart plays a gangster holed up in a remote gas station taking hostage the occupants. The film has a poetic quality which dates it significantly.
- From 1938, "Angels with Dirty Faces" is one of the best of the gangster cycle with Cagney's award winning performance and a great cast, superbly directed by Michael Curtiz.
- In 1939, "The Roaring Twenties" just about the last in the cycle before film makers turned to the war, has an epic and documentary quality and summarises the whole prohibition era. It is very well made.
- In 1949, Cagney returned to the genre for one last role, maybe his best in "White Heat". His gangster now is psychopathic and the film has qualities similar to the popular film noir of the period.

The prints of the films are excellent with the exception of "Little Ceasar" which definitely shows its age. The extras include good featurettes about each film and if you view them in chronological order, you can pick up the continuity on the commentaries - 2 pre Hays Code implementation in 1934, 3 post code and pre war and 1 post war. There are many other extras including cartoons, newsreels and trailers as part of "Warners Night at the Movies". The package is outstanding value.

Adventures Of Justine: In Heat Of Passion (Unrated)

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Adventures of Daneen Boone

Adventures Of Justine: In Heat Of Passion (Unrated)
Starring: Daneen Boone , Timothy Di Pri , Kimberly Rowe , Jennifer Behr , and Jane Stowe
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ASIN: B00005B1ZY
Release Date: 2001-06-19

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Mr D says two thumbs down!.......2005-11-11

The Adventures of Justine is a series of seven films, sold separately or sold together as a collection. At first glance, one may mistake The Adventures of Justine for one of those ubiquitous perky, adolescent TV shows. Lithe and lovely Justine (Daneen Boone) could easily be a Nancy Drew character and Professor Paul Robson (Timothy Dipri) seems to have been given an Indiana Jones persona. However, one realizes very soon that Justine's adventures are not so innocent.

Justine is a precocious teenage student and Professor Robson is a facility member at the Topacre Academy for gifted young girls. Justine along with several of the other girls are infatuated with the be-speckled but handsome Professor. Justine, who is ostensibly a virgin, and the Professor seem to get dragged into one international quest after another and while Justine manages, to her chagrin, (she desires to be de-flowered by the Professor) to remain innocent, her dreams and fantasies do not.

Justine and the Professor manage to get involved with a group of bad guys in each adventure, usually with Justine being captured but never violated, even while, people all around her, good and bad, are engaging in sex, which, by the way, Justine often watches.

Although Justine never physically takes part in any of the numerous sex scenes, she has a vivid imagination and occasionally gets seduced in one of her dreams. Her spunky roommate Ursula (Kimberly Rowe) and house mother, Madame Souvray (Jennifer Behr) are both sexually active and are often portrayed in simulated sex situations, as are the various nefarious ladies depicted in each film.

I had viewed several other films in the series before "In Heat of Passion", which by the way is the first of the seven films in the series. Although this is the first one, there isn't really anything that would let you know it precedes the others and therefore I would skip this one. While I enjoyed other movies in the series and rated them above average, I'm afraid that "In Heat of Passion" did not meet the standard of the next two films, "Object of my Desire" and "Midsummer Night". While the screenplay was somewhat corny on other Justine films, I'm afraid this one went way beyond cory past stpid and stopped at inane. The story follows three adventures, one in Egypt, one where a guy with the worst German accent I have ever heard kidnaps Justine and the third is in the Artic. NONE OF THESE EPISODES MAKES EVEN A SMIDGEN OF SENSE!

What`s Good
* Beautiful people, good casts
* Excellent bodies (male and female)
* Well done, though not overly suggestive sex scenes
* a bouncy, somewhat jocular quality

What's Bad
* poorly done, though not overly suggestive sex scenes
* Low budget and it shows
* ridiculous plots/stories
* Sex scenes seem sanitized (dispassionate)
* mediocre acting at best
* limited features

Conclusion

You're thinking, if the story was so bad, why not one star instead of two? Good question. Yes the plot is lame, really lame, example: Justine is standing half naked tied to a pole and the man and woman culprits, make fun of her because she's a virgin. They go on to say they are going to show her what she is missing, wherein they proceed to have sex, BEHIND HER, like she had eyes in the back of her head. This episode took place in the artic, where everyone but Justine is in heavy warm thermal clothing. Justine is wearing a night gown, but even though there are even more stupid scenes, the cast is attractive, a little cutesy and mildly sexy, so I gave it two stars.

yeah, i liked it.......2002-07-12

If you are a fan of the female breast, you can't help but enjoy this film. There is plenty of gratuitous nudity, which is what you should expect from a movie like this. Don't try to find a plot, just sit back and enjoy the scenery.

Adventures of Daneen Boone.......2002-01-24

Cute little mini-series, kind of a "serious-comedy"; Adventures revolve around Justine a student at a private girls school and her Professor Robson. This is the 1st of the series and it introduces the main characters. Most of the short stories involve archeological and antiquities adventures. Plenty of nice nude sceens of Daneen and a few of her friends...

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ASIN: B000M32TPE
Release Date: 2006-12-21

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Spanning the globe to bring you the most awesome array of skiing action footage yet assembled, filmmaker Warren Miller takes the viewer from the snowy slopes of Switzerland to cliff jumping, helicopter skiing, and even "dirt skiing" on the lava pits of Arizona.

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The... erm, best... of the sexploitation movies.
Buyer Beware, Edited DVD!
I LOVE THIS MOVIE BUT WHERE IS SHE??
Geez...poor Linda Blair...reduced to this??

Chained Heat
Starring: Linda Blair , John Vernon , Sybil Danning , Tamara Dobson , and Stella Stevens
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The... erm, best... of the sexploitation movies........2006-03-13

Chained Heat (Lutz Schaarwachter, 1983)

If you're looking for women's prison exploitation movies, you've come to the right place. Lutz Schaarwachter's masterpiece (directed under the name Paul Nicolas) is the gold standard of women in prison exploitation flicks, boasting a solid B-movie cast, sets that don't look like cardboard, a sound effects editor who could actually handle a tape deck, and, shall we say, enthusiastic direction. Don't get me wrong, the movie still blows goat, but it does so in the most entertaining of ways.

Carol Henderson (The Exorcist's Linda Blair, obviously in desperate need of cash) accidentally killed a man in a car accident, and has been sentenced to eighteen months in a women's prison. She immediately hooks up with hooker Val (Hard to Hold beauty Sharon Hughes) and kleptomaniac airhead Bubbles (Under the Rainbow's Louisa Moritz), and they run afoul of the local tough girls, headed up by Erica (Sybil Danning, who needs no introduction). The toughs are also opposed, through prison's natural racial divide, to Duchess (Tamara Dobson, best known for playing Cleopatra Jones in that film series), and everyone's against the guards, headed up by hairspray-helmeted Captain Taylor (Stella Stevens, who was no spring chicken here, and as of this writing is still going strong) and Warden Bachmann (the late John Vernon, whose last major film release was Sororoity Boys in 2002). There's all the corruption, fighting, nudity, and bad acting you could hope for (unless you're a rabid Linda Blair fan, in which case you probably want more nudity). There's nothing else to recommend the movie, but let's face it: if you're renting women-in-prison exploitation flicks made two decades ago, you're not looking for great literature, you're looking for Linda Blair's girly parts. (Though there are a few people who claim they watched it "just for the articles," I have to say, I don't believe them.)

This is a cheesefest, but at least it's a mild Jarlsberg instead of Kraft Processed Imitiation Cheese Food slices. **

Buyer Beware, Edited DVD!.......2006-01-30

Not what I expected it to be on DVD--several scenes were edited out, such as the prison guard rape scene and also the best scene in which one of the "baddies" gets impaled in the neck with a grappling hook in a bathroom stall. The remainder of the film is intact, language and all, but it's a mystery why the other scenes edited out. Perhaps being a foreign Region 2 disc? Who knows. Your best bet is to avoid this and get the long out of print but unedited VHS version. An item of note on the subject of editing, watch closely on many of the prison cell scenes and you'll see the dialogue microphone dangling down near the top of the screen from time to time--how could that have gone unnoticed from the director on down? I think it's hilarious, but it's just a clue as to the kind of movie you're in for here.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE BUT WHERE IS SHE??.......2005-12-13

THIS MOVIE IS THE BEST FOR THE FANS OF PRISONS MOVIE BUE I WOULD LIKE AN INTEGRAL VERSION SO WHEN IT WILL BE AVAILABLE????I DON'T KNOW BUT I TELL YOU IT IS A VERY GOOD AND VIOLENT MOVIE WITH RAPES NUDITY VIOLENCE EVERYTHING GOOD

Geez...poor Linda Blair...reduced to this??.......2005-12-09

Linda Blair goes to prison and everything turns to crap for her as she is threatened, beaten, raped and just plain forced to wonder what would have happened to her acting career had she picked a better agent.

I was reading a critics's reviews and saw this campy women-in-prison flick on his list. It really brought me back. By no means is a great film, or even good for that matter, but it has its uses. For instance, when I first saw this, I was a young teen dealing with some serious puberty issues. So, if you are into:

1) great looking women
2) catfights
3) some really gratuious nudity
4) which includes some pretty amazing nude breasts (blair included)

then party on.

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Chin Na In Depth - Courses 5 - 8

Postman Pat And The Tuba/Postman Pat And The Barometer :

Road to a Greek Wedding (REGION 1) (NTSC)

DVD: Gravity Angels: Payback

Krisis und Abschluss des Trienter Konzils 1562/1563