To write I am a fan of Italian movies from the 70s is an understatement. The women are beautiful and the T&A is plentiful. This movie did not disappoint in these areas. What drew me was the runtime, a little over 70 minutes. The actress Vonette McGee. A fan since the 70s. A prison break turned into sex trafficking to a heist. It misses the mark. The movie meander from one set piece to another with no clear objective. The finale is laughable and predictable. The location is beautiful. I can't fault the cinematography. The movie does have it moments. It doesn't have focus. All in all, 70 minutes to spare, nothing else of interests? You could do worse.
The Big Bust-Out
1972 [ITALIAN]
Action / Thriller
Plot summary
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
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Italian film that comes to US drive-in screens
Io Monaca... per tre Carogne e Sette Peccatrici (The Crucified Girls of San Ramon) was an Italian women in prison movie directed by Ernst Ritter von Theumer (Jungle Warriors, Island of the Doomed), who co-wrote it with Sergio Garrone (SS Experiment Camp, The Hand That Feeds the Dead, Django the Bastard).
Roger Corman brought it to the U. S., cut out twenty minutes and renamed it The Big Bust-Out.
A bunch of female prisoners get a work release in a convent and easily overpower their guards and go on the run. To make sure that God stays with them, Sister Maria (Monica Teuber) follows along. This entails them all being sold into white slavery - Gordon Mitchell being the villainous El Kadir who buys them and William Berger being the one who sells them - and saved by Jeff (Tony Kendall), a boat captain.
But El Kadir and his men won't give up, chasing the women for the entire film. One of his men, a small man with a whip, lashes Vonetta McGee from The Great Silence at one point. It's certainly wild, but at best you can say it's all over the place. The North Africa - I believe - shooting locations look great and this movie has the kind of cast and material that makes me think Jess Franco should have been involved.