Swamp Women

Starring:Beverly Garland, Carole Mathews, Mike Connors, Marie Windsor, Jil Jarmyn, Susan Cummings, Lou Place, Jonathan Haze, Ed Nelson
Director: Roger Corman
Studio: Brentwood Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Lots of padding...and Touch Conners!!!.
Bayou Babes
Mildly Amusing Roger Corman Hokum
Cheesy Fun
Boggy Babes Battle For Ill-Gotten Booty...

Swamp Women
Starring: Beverly Garland , Carole Mathews , Mike Connors , Marie Windsor , and Jil Jarmyn
Director: Roger Corman
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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Release Date: 2004-05-25

Customer Reviews:

Lots of padding...and Touch Conners!!!........2007-02-12

I've only seen this movie through MST3K when it was SWAMP DIAMONDS and it was a very funny episode when they did it,which you can get on Volume 10.Mike Conners is in this,but was credited as Touch Conners.There's lots of padding in this movie and it seems like there wasn't much editing at all.Plus,another mistake is when Touch's girl makes a run for it in the canoe and she falls over,she's actually in a swimming pool instead of in a swamp...Sill enjoyable nonetheless..

Bayou Babes.......2007-01-05

I bought this movie thinking it would be an old horror movie. I can't say I was necessarily disappointed since I was still mildly entertained. To sum it up 3 tough as nails criminals (haha) and an undercover cop go into the jungle to find diamonds. They come across some guy and his girl, kidnap them and their boat. Then lots of nothing happens but they still film it anyways. Also, an animal was severely injured during the making of this film, so beware. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anybody who doesn't already have a passion for olden day movies. Although it does have its funny moments I assume most will fall asleep like the people I watched it with.

Mildly Amusing Roger Corman Hokum.......2005-04-13

"Swamp Women" is generally regarded as one of the worst films by B-movie auteut Roger Corman (it was on "Mystery Science Theater" as well as in the Medveds' old book "50 Worst Films of All Time"). It's the story of four tough-talkin' prison girls who go to a swamp to find some hidden diamonds. Along the way they kidnap a strapping young man and his cowardly wife, who abruptly dies early on. This isn't one of Corman's more entertaining cheapies, although it has its moments. The alligator wrestling scene is a high point in the history of bad movies, and the hilariously macho prison girls (including regular Corman leading lady Beverly Garland) inspire a few giggles.
The DVD from Brentwood is, unsurprisingly for a bargain-bin disc, unexceptional. The colour image is murky and faded, while the sound often seems muffled. That being said, I doubt there are any pristine versions of "Swamp Women" to use as a master. There are no extras.

Cheesy Fun.......2004-09-12

This movie was made around 1955 so the above "1941" listed year is 14 years too early. I haven't seen this DVD version but I have seen the film. Swamp Woman was not intended to be taken seriously! It is a mans' fantasy film about beautiful women convicts holding a handsome guy and his girl-friend hostage in the swamp! heee! A sort of guilty pleasure. My enjoyment of this film is watching Beverly Garland, who is always wonderful to look at!

Boggy Babes Battle For Ill-Gotten Booty..........2004-04-13

I'm not a big fan of Roger Corman's cheaper-looking monsters (as in "the creature from haunted sea" et al), however, SWAMP WOMEN could certainly have used one of Corman's 8' styrofoam space-turds to spice things up a bit! Instead, we've got four women, consisting of 3 "hardened" criminals and one undercover cop, floating trough the bayou. We've also got Mike Conners and his half-wit girlfriend as hostages. It seems the "Nardo Girls" have escaped from prison in search of $200,000.00 in stolen diamonds. Unbeknownst to them, a policewoman is posing as their partner in crime. We get to see Conners tied to several trees, and his dopey girlfriend gets (thank you God) eaten by alligators. Eventually, the diamonds are found, the girls have one catfight after another (the only real highlight), and one decides to sneak off with both the diamonds and Mike Conners! This leads to her demise at the end of a spear. Beverly Garland isn't bad, but everyone else had me wishing for more gator attacks!. This film is 70 minutes long and would have been much better at 50 or so. Watch it if there's nothing else to do...

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Horror Classics, Vol. 13 (Swamp Women / Phantom from 10,000 Leagues / Creature from the Haunted Sea)

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Guys 'n' Thighs
Quantity and price make it worthwhile for bad movie lovers.

Horror Classics, Vol. 13 (Swamp Women / Phantom from 10,000 Leagues / Creature from the Haunted Sea)
Starring: Beverly Garland , Carole Mathews , Mike Connors , Marie Windsor , and Jil Jarmyn
Director: Roger Corman , and Dan Milner
Manufacturer: Rph Productions
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ASIN: B0000694YP
Release Date: 2002-08-13

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Guys 'n' Thighs.......2003-08-10

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is the only one of these features that deserves a single star. It at least tries to be straightforward sci-fi, even though its monster is so atrociously ill-made that it looks like a cousin of the Creature from the Haunted Sea--which is intended as parody. The latter has as much satirical savy, however, as a film scripted and shot by second-graders. Swamp Women, meant as jailbreak drama, should be of interest only to those who enjoy ogling short-shorted, cat-fightin' floosies--or maybe Mike Connors perpetually tied to a tree! Many of the players in the trio are competent actors (seeing them in other films proves this), but the sandwiching cinema is so shoddy that one would be better served acquiring Phantom as a single. It at least has a plot more expansive than that better suited for a short!

Quantity and price make it worthwhile for bad movie lovers........2003-06-17

None of the movies here represented can individually redeem a purchase, even for camp aficionados, but together on one disc you can hardly go wrong. Additionally, the prints are average at best, but come on... these movies are not likely to receive Criterion Collection treatment anytime soon. So for the price, they're fine.

As with a lot of the dvds in this "horror classics" series, the inclusion of at least one of the movies is questionable. Here that would be the crime-based Swamp Women. Yet, I'm glad, because it exists on dvd nowhere else. The other films exist in other formats, and have been amply reviewed, sometimes by me, so I will constrain my comments to Swamp Women. (Phantom gets a dull 2 stars, Creature gets a sometimes-good 3 stars.)

Swamp Women itself is no great shakes, earning a shaky three stars. You need to know little besides "1955" and "Corman" to figure that out. His movies from this early period are gratingly inept, but without a lot of the goofy charm that they possessed just a few years later. The draw is the cast: Beverly (Pretty Poison) Garland, Marie (The Killing) Windsor and Mike "Touch" Connors, of Mannix renown. The story involves a butchy policewoman going undercover in a Louisiana jail to infiltrate a gang of broads (led by Windsor, whose screen name is Josie. Would that make them Josie and the Alleycats?) who know where their former boyfriends hid a cache of stolen diamonds. The hard-bitten ladies take her into their confidence at once, as they perform "hard labor" in what appears to be a cigarette warehouse. They escape easily by climbing out a window, and run to a waiting car. None of this arouses any suspicion.

They change (offscreen) into pastel shirts, then commandeer a motorboat which holds Connors and his girlfriend ("Hey, baby, wanna tour the swamp?"), and a guide, who is shot dead so that penny-pincher Corman could pay him only for an hour's work. Connors, the nominal hero, is knocked cold by one weenie Windsor punch. The policewoman must then balance her hardened criminal act with her attempt to keep the hostages alive.

They all head toward the diamonds, inserting lots of padding and filler and stock footage, making time for bickering and cutting off the women's jeans to make them into short shorts. This meager bit of cheesecake helps the movie a whole bunch. They fight over Connors' affections as he is tied to a tree, and Garland has a nice wrestling match with the Jan Sterling-esque Jill Jarmyn (If you're familiar with Jarmyn's history, you know she's had practice). Plus, Connors, who earlier had been KO'd by Windsor, battles an alligator and kills it quite simply. Yet not before the budget-conscious Corman allows it to bloodlessly kill the girlfriend, who was flailing in clearly much bluer, cleaner water. (Personally, I think this scene was inserted later only at the behest of Connors and his agent, so Touch would not be the most worthless "hero" in the history of cinema.)

The movie tries hard to be tough and mean, like the caper films of the period, but it doesn't walk the walk, and it certainly can't talk the talk. Windsor's main hard-boiled line (over and over) is "Cut it out, you two!" The Asphalt Jungle this is not. Eventually they reach the "buried" loot, which appeared to be no more than delicately wrapped in dry reeds, rather like a tamale. More squabbling occurs. Then the group begins their trek back out of the swamp. Ill-planned double-crosses, a shootout that wouldn't have needed to happen, a javelin toss, a rattlesnake, a poignant death, catfights, oarfights, headbutts and a circling police helicopter ensue before a romantic fadeout that is just ... yucky.

Now I shall cowboy up and admit my particular bias. Beverly Garland was one of the few B Scream Queens who could act, really act. But it gave me no great pleasure to see her acting like a kill-crazed Bayou Barbie. And although her rassling matches with Jarmyn made me wish this had been made 10 years later, they were somewhat offputting, in part because they were quite convincing. I also did not like her playing second banana to Windsor. I won't even begin to discuss Garland's demise.

In fact, the whole cast is decent. But the script and direction are so bad and unambitious that they annoy, rather than elate. Not enough happens to be truly, memorably terrible. (I find bad noir less appealing than bad sci-fi.) A felt-and-rubber Blaisdell monster would've helped.

As always, when I describe early Corman, I like it better now, having reviewed it. Writing all the silliness down gives me a chance to process it; what was merely blah before brings chuckles in retrospect. But I don't know that it would help on repeated viewings.

Customer Reviews:

Lots of padding...and Touch Conners!!!........2007-02-12

Bayou Babes.......2007-01-05

Mildly Amusing Roger Corman Hokum.......2005-04-13

Cheesy Fun.......2004-09-12

Boggy Babes Battle For Ill-Gotten Booty..........2004-04-13

Action Classics: The Bloody Brood/The Fast and the Furious/Mutiny in the Big House/Swamp Women

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Action Classics: The Bloody Brood/The Fast and the Furious/Mutiny in the Big House/Swamp Women
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Release Date: 2005-06-07

Blood on the Sun / Beyond Tomorrow / Swamp Women / the Big Trees

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[DVD] Swamp Women, A Film by Roger Corman

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[DVD] Swamp Women, A Film by Roger Corman

Manufacturer: Dollar DVD
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Product Description

Swamp Women (1955) A plucky police woman infiltrates a group of hardened female criminals who are planning to break jail and retrieve their loot of diamonds from its swampy hiding place. Complications arise when the women abduct Connors and begin fighting each other.

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Swamp Women
Starring: Mike Connors; Beverly Garland
Director: Roger Corman
Manufacturer: Miracle Pictures
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An aggressive police woman infiltrates a group of hardened female prisoners who are planning a jailbreak. The goal is to retrieve their diamond stash from a hidden place in the swamp.

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Horror Movie Classics - 50 Movie Pack on 12 DVDs.......2007-05-01

All of these movie pack collections are pretty good for the price. However, this is not a new pack and the asking price is at least $10 higher than any of the other sets at their NEW price. Look further and this set could be purchased cheaper. The highest price on a new set is $20 and some are down to $10. The films are grainy and the sound isn't the best, but they are watchable and fun.

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