Le evase - Storie di sesso e di violenze (1978)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Giovanni Brusadori

Writers:

Giovanni Brusadori (screenplay)
Giovanni Brusadori (story)

Release Date:

June 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Adult

Tagline:

They're bustin' out!

Plot:

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players...

Plot Keywords:

Convict | Female Nudity | Nymphomaniac | Lesbianism | Prostitute

Cast

Lilli Carati	...	Monica Hadler
Ines Pellegrini	...	Terry
Marina Daunia	...	Diana (as Marina D'Aunia)
Zora Kerova	...	Anna (as Zora Keer)
Dirce Funari	...	Claudine (as Patrizia Funari)
Filippo De Gara	...	Pierre (as Filippo Degara)
Ada Pometti	...	Erica
Artemia Terenziani	...	Betty
Franco Ferrer
Angela Doria	...	Spunky Blonde

Also Known As:

Escape from Women's Prison (USA) (video title)
Jailbirds (UK)
Sexual Freedom (International: English title)
Women Against Women, a Tale of Sex and Violence (Canada: English title) (video title)

Runtime:

95 min | USA:91 min | UK:87 min (DVD version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Company:

Cinema 13 Cooperativa

Movie Connections:

Featured in Sleazemania: The Special Edition (1985)

Foreign muck

The plot outline for this film promised so much, a group of French/Italian (its difficult to tell) female prisoners break out of their prison, and set out on the run, killing a few police officers and kidnapping a bus load of young tennis players, this seems a perfect setting for an "erotic thriller", but as is to be expected from a very low budget European film from the late seventies, the film fails to live up to any of this potential. This film is a laughable, poorly dubbed, appallingly edited story which tries to be intelligent, managing to achieve the seemingly impossible combination of pretentiousness and stupidity. The film has few redeeming features, but the main one is that it is quite a good laugh to watch with a few mates when drunk, especially at the hilarious musical score and the cheap and nasty production values, (at one point it actually switches from widescreen to normal, then back to widescreen a few minutes later). If you wanted you could probably kid yourself into thinking this was an art-house film since its foreign and attempts to deal with "issues" in societies, which it does rather clumsily, otherwise just watch it and laugh.