The Big Doll House 1971  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Women in Cages
Women's Penitentiary
Bamboo Dolls House
Director: Jack Hill
Cast: Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Brooke Mills, Pat Woodell, Sid Haig, Christiane Schmidtmer, Kathryn Loder, Jerry Frank, Gina Stuart
Prison is hell, but this one is even worse as the sadistic warden and guards exploit the women prisoners. The women must at least attempt an escape. Similar exploitation films were made in quick order.
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Jungle Girl 1941  N/R, 225 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John English, William Witney
Cast: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr, Eddie Acuff, Frank Lackteen, Tommy Cook, Robert Barron, Al Kikume, Bud Geary, Joe McGuinn, Jerry Frank
Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, this is the story of Nyoka (Frances Gifford) who was raised in the African jungle and now searches for a fortune in diamonds. But the dastardly Slick Latimer (Gerald Mohr) and Nyoka's crooked uncle (Trevor Bardette)–who had killed Nyoka's father–also want the diamonds as do other shady characters. Americans Jack and Curly (Tom Neal and Eddie Acuff) come to Nyoka's aid often in this good 15-episode serial.
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Voodoo Island 1957 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Silent Death
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Cast: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Elisha Cook Jr., Murvyn Vye, Rhodes Reason, Jean Engstrom, Friedrich von Ledebur, Glenn Dixon, Owen Cunningham, Herbert Patterson, Jerry Frank, Adam West
Boris Karloff plays investigator Phillip Knight whose assignment is to check out bizarre events occurring in an area planned as an island resort. Knight arrives on the island with his secretary Sarah Adams (Beverly Tyler), and, after witnessing plants eating people, he realizes that voodoo really does exist on the island.
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| 1. The Big Doll House (1971)
aka: Women in Cages
aka: Women's Penitentiary
aka: Bamboo Dolls House
2. Jungle Girl (1941)
3. Voodoo Island (1957)
aka: Silent Death
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