She Mob (1968)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Writer:

Diana Paschal (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. She hires a tough private eye to find her boyfriend and rescue him. |

Plot Keywords:

Voyeurism | Lesbianism | Female Nudity | Threesome | Cross Dressing

Cast

Marni Castle	...	Big Shim / Brenda McClain
Monique Duval	...	Sweety East, the detective
Adam Clyde	...	Tony, the gigolo
Twig	...	Twig
Eve Laurie	...	Baby, Shim's girlfriend
Ann Adams	...	Lorenz
Joy Dale	...	Harry
Bill Bags	...	Jeff
Peaches Chapman	...	Teeny
Robert Beam	...	Sheriff
Raymond Smith	...	Deputy

Runtime:

82 min | USA:79 min (video version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Filming Locations:

Texas, USA

A pathetically poor sexploitation sleaze-fest!

When watching these low budget drive-in era skin-flicks, you have to make some allowances in terms of technical quality and acting ability, if you want to have even a slight chance of enjoying them. Still, even with such allowances given to "She Mob," it is still an embarrassingly poor effort.

The whole plot revolves around some psycho-bitches, lead by the lezbo hard-ass called Big Shim (Marni Castle), as they sucker a cocky gigolo (Adam Clyde) into their midst and hold him for ransom. The rest of the film is filled with sexual perversions, violence and humiliations of various kinds.

I don't think anyone viewing this is looking for the next great emotional drama, filled with crisp and witty dialog and powerhouse acting performances. However, even judged against other b-grade films of the same type, this film comes up wickedly short. No one in this entire production could deliver a line, even if it was marked postage paid. It seems all the females in this film simply try to get by on their looks alone (and in some cases, even that is ill-advised). The fact that almost no one in the cast of the film went on to do other films, even trashy ones like this, tells you something.

Even worse is the camera work, which is incredibly bad. I love T&A as much as the next red-blooded male, but some of the focusing on the breasts and asses of the women goes beyond gratuitous and boarders on the pathetic. It is as if they knew they had nothing else to offer in the way of plot or story and simply wanted to distract you with as much female flesh as they could, but the filming is so dark at times and so badly edited, that you can't even really allow yourself to ENJOY that distraction.

There are a few lines of dialog that are funny, in that unintentional way, and plenty of soft female forms almost constantly on display. But other than that, this film brings nothing to the table, that even attempts to offer you entertainment value, or any other form of stimulation.

This film is one of those where there is no director named. I don't know if this is due to there not being one, or that they simply had the good sense to keep their name off of this trash. Either way, it just shows how embarrassing the whole production really is, that no one is willing to cop to being the one responsible for it.

If you are looking for an entertaining and fun sexploitation film, I'd say to check out something from Russ Meyer or Jess Franco before you even glance in the direction of "She Mob."