The Big Bird Cage (1972)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Jack Hill

Writer:

Jack Hill (writer)

Release Date:

July 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Women so hot with desire they melt the chains that enslave them!

Plot:

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

Plot Keywords:

Revolutionaries | Escape | Women | Prison | W.i.p

Cast

Pam Grier	...	Blossom
Anitra Ford	...	Terry
Candice Roman	...	Carla
Teda Bracci	...	Bull Jones
Carol Speed	...	Mickie
Karen McKevic	...	Karen
Sid Haig	...	Django
Marissa Delgado	...	Rina
Vic Diaz	...	Rocco
Andres Centenera	...	Warden Zappa (as Andy Centenera)
Rizza	...	Lin Tsiang (as Rizza Fabian)
Subas Herrero	...	Moreno
Wendy Green	...	Gertie

Also Known As:

Women's Penitentiary II

Runtime:

88 min | USA:96 min (DVD)

Country:

Philippines | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

New Zealand:R16 | Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:R | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Banaue Rice Terraces, Ifugao, Luzon, Philippines

Company:

New World Pictures

Trivia:

At the beginning of the film, when Terry (Anitra Ford) is taken to the prison by boat. The cove that she is dropped off at is the same one that was subsequently used for the location of the Kurtz compound in Apocalypse Now (1979) (both films were shot in the Philippines).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Jackie Brown: How It Went Down (2002) (V)

Anitra Ford really only movie star performance

The only reason I bought this movie, because it had Anitra Ford in it. Pam Grier plays the role of Blossom, Anitra Ford plays the role of Terry, and Sid Haig plays the role of Djanglo. Terry is invite to go to a small tavern in town where Blossom is singing. While their Blossom and here thugs try to rob the place. Terry is taken hostage by Djanglo and thrown in a getaway car. When the local police catch up with the car Djanglo jumps over the bridge leaving Terry to fend for herself. Despite her innocents, Terry is sentence to life on a Government work farm known as the Big Bird Cage. When Terry's brought to the prison by boat at the beginning of the picture the cove where she is being dropped off at is the same one that was subsequently used for the location of the Kurtz compound in Apocalypse Now (1979) where both films were shot in the Philippines. When Blossom tries to take out the local politicians. She is also sentence to the work farm. There Blossom, Terry and Djanglo who's undercover as a Warden Guard get together one more time. How does one escape from the work farm? If you do escape, do you make out alive? I first saw Anitra Ford on the Price is Right Game Show as a model with those gorgeous long legs. As far as I'm concern Anitra does an excellent showing for herself. If you like Anitra Ford then you like this picture. Antria Ford was one of the first models on The Price is Right Game Show. I like this movie because it kept interested all the way through. I give this picture 10 weasel stars just on Antria Ford alone.