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12 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
What can I say?, 1 March 2001

Author: jvanderkammer from Ontario, Canada

Put them all together: Erwin Dietrich behind the camera, Brigitte Lahaie and a whole bunch of gorgeous, very naked women in front of the camera, keep the nudity and hot scenes going from beginning to end, and you've got a winner. Storyline?... who cares! Okay, okay... a bunch of beautiful girls are kidnapped from a bordello by a paramilitary force (yikes!) and taken to a deserted island to be held as sex slaves. That's the bad news. The good news is they don't suffer much at all, and they are nude most of the time. Basically the same cast from "Come Play With Me" (another wonderful Erwin Dietrich romp) with a bunch of welcomed additions. Fans of '70s Euro sleaze will definitely enjoy this one.

11 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
Gorgeous Brigitte Lahaie!, 3 August 2006

Author: Labia_Mirage from Deutschland

This review is of the German DVD from ABC, from their "Erotic Classics" series. (and coming from someone who has a strong dislike for porn films!) I began watching "Gefangene Frauen" (Caged Women) with absolutely no expectations. I was surprised to find that, for what it is, it delivers what it promises, and what one would expect from this genre of film. The simplistic story deals with a group of girls being kidnapped by soldiers, from a whorehouse, of all places. The girls are taken to a mysterious prison located on a beautiful island. Of course this is all an excuse to show a lot of sex and nudity. but the production values, cinematography, and style make this one stand out among so many films of this kind. First of all, it features a collection of truly gorgeous women, with the most perfect bodies you could ever hope to find in adult film. Brigitte Lahaie, here in her prime, has the most perfect, gorgeous body and face I have ever seen! And she is almost upstaged (but not quite) by the other ravishing prisoners of "Red Island." The sets are also impressive; the prison, a white, sun-drenched structure surrounded by blue waters, supposedly shark-infested, to keep the girls from escaping, is quite aesthetically appealing. Another set worth mentioning, is a bath, located in the "President's" suite; A large oyster shell, ornate gold and red, that has to be seen to be appreciated. This attention to detail I believe is important, as they lend the film a sense of legitimacy, and dare I say...class.. The uniform of the head female prison "kommandant", black leather Gestapo-style, with matching leather cap, should be appealing to S&M fetishists. Even the men are handsome, with healthy, athletic bodies. This is somewhat rare in sex films; usually great care is put into finding attractive actresses, but the men are usually just thrown in, and they mostly are very ordinary, or just plain unattractive. I guess it is the male fantasy thing, where ugly men can possess the most beautiful women. But not here, on the island where most everyone is pleasing to look at. And it is all easy to take as well, as the women are never abused, or truly hurt. They actually seem to be enjoying the whole experience! Aside from a scene early on in the picture, where a young girl is raped by a soldier, there are no other scenes of forced sex. the idea here is that women can enjoy sex as much as men. the girls look forward to the nightly visits from the prison guards, and they give themselves freely. In their situation, they don't have to act like they hate sex. There is even the perverted "doctor" who spends much of his time clipping the heads of of nude girls in magazines, when he is not "examining" the prisoners. But I didn't find it sexist, for some reason. It was all too silly to be sexist, or offensive. And the men are also on display here. The film plays a bit like a low-rent "Story of O", without the strong violence, but with more graphic sex. For the German DVD, I was surprised at the great care taken to restore this strange 1980 erotic film. The anamorphic picture was absolutely beautiful, top quality, as was the audio. There is a choice between the original German audio, which seems to be dubbed as well, or a hilarious English dubbed track. I think that many of these films were originally shot without any sound, with voices added later. At least that is how it appears. Included as well are some good trailers for other erotic films form this time. This also claims to be an uncut print, with a running time of 89 minutes PAL, or about 94 minutes NTSC! Very rare indeed. It is hard to classify the film as hardcore, or soft core; There are many closeup shots of the female genitalia, with a lot of graphic masturbation included, that would be considered way too explicit for late-night cable. However there are no scenes of male to female sexual intercourse. It is all obviously simulated, as the men lie with the women, but never have erections. ( I wonder how they manage...) I'm actually glad of this as I wouldn't want to see the gorgeous Brigitte Lahaie debased in such a way. Being a nude model is a far cry from having actual sex on camera, and that would have brought this movie to a lower level that I wouldn't really want to watch, much less review. I think that kind of porn is ugly, however there is enough pretty images in "Gefangene Frauen" to recommend to fans of this genre. Directed incidentally by the notorious Erwin Dietrich. If interested, try to locate the German DVD from ABC, as the UK release seems to have 9 minutes of footage cut from it. I must say that after seeing this film I am an immediate fan of Brigitte Lahaie, and would love to see more of her work. "Gefangene Frauen" is a fun, and very sexy viewing experience, without being too sleazy or offensive!

4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
One of the best women in prison films ever!!!, 14 December 2007

Author: wildpeace10 from Canada

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

i'm very surprised of the low average rating that this film is getting.

i've seem many disappointing exploitation films(dark lighting, excessive gore,dull story,lack of good looking girls and lack of full frontal nudity) but this one really stands apart. it has beautiful girls,good locations, scenes well lit and an interesting story.

it has constant nudity and it doesn't shy away from full frontal like so many other films seem to do just to attract a different market.Of course,it's not perfect. But what films are? The fight between a naked man and a woman (she easily wins)isn't very credible. Another scene were there's a grenade and smoke isn't credible as the grenade looks like a plastic green lemon and the explosion(if you can call it that!) looks like a cloud of smoke.

There's also a scene where a girl kills a doctor with a steel instrument. First of all,it's doubtful it would have killed him and it makes the girl look bad(a knock on the head would still have done the trick)since the doctor was not established as a very evil character after all.

But there's so much that's good about this film,that those are little imperfections that can be easily forgotten.

This review is the one of the 2006 uncut PAL widescreen special edition titled CAGED WOMEN which comes with an xxx stars bonus.

The xxx stars bonus is clips of really bad porn so if you can find a DVD cheaper without the bonus,go for that one.

7 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
got sleaze?, 29 October 2005

Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

I'd love to write a little summary of this movie's plot, but...there simply isn't one! If you just take a look at the plot keywords for this title, you pretty much know the entire content of the film: sex, breasts, exploitation, female frontal nudity and women's prison! 80 minutes of pure sleaze and nothing more. "Escape of the Island Women" (an alternate title that isn't even listed here) clearly wanted to become another notorious and controversial woman-in-prison classic, but it totally lacks the brutality of one. WIP-flicks are meant to blend graphic sexual images with shocking violence, but the violence here has just been replaced with more sex. Director Erwin Dietrich surely can't compete with specialists in the field, like Jess Franco or Joe D'Amato, and he should have sticked to making ordinary soft-core flicks. The only aspects that slightly look like cult-cinema are the resemblance of the tyrant-president with Fidel Castro and the group-rape of a (minor?) girl by soldiers. The girls are ravishing, though, and the Ibiza filming location looks very enchanting.

3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Everyone undress!, 19 April 2009

Author: superguapo2000 from America

Though Gefangene Frauen masquerades as a Women In Prison movie, it's more like the collected footage of some people on a nudist vacation, shot between meals and sight-seeing, sort of like a nude Sports Illustrated Prison Swimsuit video. The plot is slapped together in normal euro-trash fashion, and takes up very little of this flick, which is a shame, since it's really pretty comical. At one point there's three consecutive coup d'états in the span of ten minutes. The dialog is scant but always poignant:

Warden: "You cannot and will not leave this island. As a reminder you will no longer wear your clothes. Everyone undress!"

.. which is thought-provoking, since everyone (including the warden and the guards) was already undressed almost the whole time. But now it's for real.

Directed and written by Edwin Dietrich, euro-smut-peddler extraordinaire, Gefangene Frauen takes place mostly outdoors in what seems like a Mediterranean island. The light is crisp and the color is subtly beautiful, which is rare for a flick of this caliber. It helps that the cast is completely nude throughout almost the entire duration of the movie, be they in their cells, or performing manual labor (ie. throwing small rocks around) in the countryside.

Gefangene Frauen dispenses with the sadistic aspects of the genre, and focuses mostly on nudity and getting the scenes shot before dinner time. It's a good movie to play in the background while doing something else, though it's a must to pay attention any time there's dialog.

4 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Magnificent addition ot the genre, 17 December 2008

Author: John Mclaren from London, England

Clearly in the top 3 of all WIP flicks, my main addiction to this 80 minutes of celluoid is born of seeing Brigitte Lahaie and a bevy of other beauties parading around naked in bright daylight. "Gefangene Frauen" (Caged Women) is one of Dietrich's finest softcore achievements. He has taken the WIP genre and added a twist of his own.

The girls are kidnapped from a brothel and taken to an island prison. There they undertake a modest degree of insubordinate behaviour which triggers obligatory punishment. This consists of having to strip and walk around naked in the prison for the rest of the film. And what can you say against that? What with nude wrestling, nude whipping and a nude escape project, it's all a go-go.

Sure the acting is weak and the plot rattles, but that is not what we are here for. It delivers what it says on the tin. Big time.

3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Satire of Third-World Coup Mentality during Cold War, 26 August 2008

Author: tensaip from Daly City, CA

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I kid you not. The surprise ending is meant to comment on a bizarre political trend in the last third of the 20th Century in which military putsch leaders seemed to be of ever decreasing rank. The nadir of this phenomena being the 1980 Liberian coup which left MASTER SERGEANT Samuel K. Doe as head of state.

At the climax of this film the lowly soldiers stationed as guards at Red Island turn out to be part of the movement to overthrow their country's military dictator and replace him with one of their own. But, surprise, Red Island's sub-commander reveals during the denouement that he's already cut a deal with the regular military to depose and succeed his comrade within a fortnight.

Oh-ho! Sex AND Politics? That's the SEVENTIES for you.

(should also mention that the chicks were totally smoking)

5 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Another women in prison flick, 12 October 2006

Author: The_Void from Beverley Hills, England

I've come to realise through watching this sort of film that I don't like them very much. Caged Women is yet another 'women in prison' film, and like the most of the rest of the genre; the plot is completely forsaken in favour of simply showing nude women. Now don't get me wrong; I love nude women, but I also like there to be some sort of plot thread to go with the nudity, and since this film has only the basic 'women are in prison' theme running through it (aswell as the essential escape, of course), I got a bit bored before the end. The film is good because there's barely a moment in it where the women are wearing clothes, but that's about the only positive element. Director (and writer, ha ha) Erwin C. Dietrich delights in showing close-ups of the naked female body, but it's never very erotic. The director was the producer on a number of trash flicks, including some directed by Jess Franco. In my opinion, he should stick to producing as his writing talents are non-existent, and he doesn't seem to know how to film a sex scene. This sort of material is rather dry a lot of the time, but I reckon Franco could have made more out of it. Overall, this might suffice for people that are really into this sort of stuff; but I can't say I enjoyed it.

2 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Nudity made dull!, 27 March 2007

Author: essankay from United States

Another example of the women-in-prison genre. This is not exactly a genre known for quality films, but this is a notch below most. A bunch of women are taken from the bordellos where they work to a prison on a rocky island. Once there, they are subjected to lots of poorly directed sex and atrocious "dialog." For a film with an astounding amount of sex and nudity there is really nothing erotic about any of it. The sex scenes are awkwardly acted, and some scenes, like the shower scene, seem to drag on and on. That said, there are at least some minimal production values. On the W-i-P scale I would put it above Frauen fur Zellenblock Neun, but below Chained Heat.

3 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Offensive trash - with one memorable part, 10 January 2006

Author: gridoon

Much like Tinto Brass ("Caligula"), the people who made this movie can't tell the difference between explicitness and eroticism. No build-up at all, just throw naked women on the screen; no, it doesn't work that way. If close-ups of female genitalia aren't your thing, prepare to be looking away from the screen at many points (I often did). The "all women are whores at heart" mentality of the movie is offensive, and the "story" is by turns absurd and boring (the escape is the most boring part!). But halfway through there is a random scene that pops out of nowhere and involves one of the (female) prisoners and one of the (male) guards in a nude wrestling match, which she wins with a couple of judo moves. Although the choreography of the fight is bad, the whole scene is undeniably memorable. In fact, that scene and the nice cinematography are the only two reasons I give this film * out of 4, instead of 0.

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