Nightmare in Badham County (1976) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer:

Jo Heims (writer)

Release Date:

5 November 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Where Innocence Is A Punishable Crime

Plot:

Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances...

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Judge | Women's Prison | Prison Guard | Nipples

Cast

Deborah Raffin	...	Cathy Phillips
Lynne Moody	...	Diane Emery
Chuck Connors	...	Sheriff Danen
Fionnula Flanagan	...	Dulcie (as Fionnuala Flanagan)
Tina Louise	...	Greer
Robert Reed	...	Supt. Dancer
Della Reese	...	Sarah
Lana Wood	...	Smitty
Ralph Bellamy	...	Judge
Leslie Albers	...	Waitress
Denise Dillaway	...	Inmate
Simpson Hemphill	...	Governor's aide
Annette Henley	...	White inmate #1
Tom Keith	...	Gas station attendant
Mary Ann Kohler	...	Inmate

Also Known As:

Nightmare

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) (video rating) | Iceland:16 | USA:R | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia)

Filming Locations:

Carrolton, Mississippi, USA

Company:

ABC Circle Films

Trivia:

This made-for-TV movie was released outside the USA in a more explicit version, proving to be an especially huge hit in China. The film's success in China was so substantial that star Deborah Raffin became the unofficial ambassador from Hollywood to China; she arranged meetings between Hollywood luminaries and Chinese leaders and filmmakers to get Chinese films distributed in America and American films released in China. Moreover, Raffin was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in the picture.

Low budget, made for TV, and somewhat entertaining

Whatever happened to Kim Wilson who played "Emiline?" She was the first victim of the evil Robert Reed. (Sorry for putting this in the review section, but there is no message board.) Want a review? Two cosmopolitan coeds from UCLA get arrested on trumped up charges in Mississippi. They can either put out for the sheriff, or risk a stint in the county work farm. These girls opt for the work farm, where they encounter sexual exploitation, physical violence, and even murder. Of course, every town in the south at this time was ruled over by corrupt law enforcement and had a county work farm to oppress women, African Americans, and other minorities. Unsuspecting, virtuous northerners were regularly imprisoned in such towns. Everyone knows this, right? Television icons Robert Reed (The Brady Bunch) and Tina Louise (Gilligan's Island) play villains in a departure from type casting. Despite the clichés this movie can be fun to watch so long as your expectations remain check.

But, the real question is, where is the lovely and talented Kim Wilson?