Black Mama, White Mama

1973 "Chicks in Chains - where they come from this is... Fun!"
5.6| 1h27m| en
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When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Michael Ledo Another Pam Grier prison girl sexplotation film made in the Philippines. Pam goes to prison and arrives with a bunch of other women in time to take a shower. While the girl's frolic, the warden (Laurie Burton) spies on them and pleasures herself. In spite of having a regular guard as a girlfriend, the warden wants Pam Grier. Pam rejects her advances, but Margaret Markov does not. This causes friction between the girls who later give us a cat fight with up skirts.Through a series of circumstances the 2 girls manage to escape except they are chained to each other (film also released under the title "Chained Women"). Blondie wants to get guns to the revolutionaries while Pam has some cash stashed and wants off the island. Good old fashion 70's drive-in standard.Ample above the waist nudity, no silicon, near rape.
gkeith_1 Spoilers. Observations. Opinions. Hilarious. This film is so funny. The nuns outfits are twin penguin / Siamese twin paper dolls. The two women on the run manage to attack and whack their aggressors. They win. Put aside their hatred after beating each other up some more. They outwit a lot of people. The buses are cute. Karen gets killed in the end. I did not like that. This knocks my ten down to a nine. I am a film critic and movie reviewer. This film I call a tragicomedy. It was insanely stupid, yet I had to watch the whole thing without waiting for the recording to finish.
Mr-Fusion How do you go from an opening 20 minutes that holds such naughty promise (a women's prison full of bewbs and illicit lesbian fantasy) to a remaining 70 minutes that almost does away with that entirely and leaves us with a bunch of clothed men? Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, two bad "B"s on the run almost play second fiddle to a supporting cast of revolutionaries, bad cops and gangsters. How do you squander such jiggly potential? Maybe if you develop those supporting characters who gobble up so much of the screen time, this wouldn't be an issue. Play up the humor a bit, more ladies with less clothes, you get what I'm saying. This is not difficult. It's always worth it to see a mad as hell Pam Grier (you don't mess with her), but this movie needed a lot more of that. It needed a lot more of the titillation it seems to promise. It's a slog even at 90 minutes. Everything about this movie promises a lot more ass-kicking than it delivers.This is awful. 3/10
lastliberal Give me Pam Grier anytime. It doesn't take long for her to be in the shower at the prison all naked, with one of the matrons looking through a peephole and getting all hot and bothered as some of the girls play around.Standard prison fare: fight in the dining area, a day naked in the hot box, bare breasts, lesbian matron trying to come on to prisoners, torture; you know the drill.One of the prisoners (Margaret Markov) is part of the revolution on the island, so she and Pam Grier get sprung. They cop some nuns habits as disguises. The cowboy drug dealer (Sid Haig) provided lots of laughs as they chased the two women. Another drug dealer provided lots of flesh to view when he was on screen. With a rebel group and the police in on the search, there was plenty of action.