Chained Girls (1965)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Joseph P. Mawra

Writer:

Joseph P. Mawra (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Unnatural love of women for women! A daring film about lesbianism today!

Plot Keywords:

Exploitation | Lesbianism | Lesbian | Stereotype | Sex

Cast

Joel Holt

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Narrator (voice) (as Perry Peters)

Also Known As:

Caged Girls (USA) (bootleg title)

Runtime:

USA:65 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba)

Filming Locations:

Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Roman numeral copyright date at the start of the movie is wrong. It says MCLXV(1165) when it should be MCMLXV(1965).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Virgins in Heat (1976)

A wonderfully exploitive "documentary" on lesbianism

"Chained Women" is a completely exploitive, offensive and inaccurate "documentary" on lesbians, looking at the history of lesbians, lesbian terminology and the lives of several lesbians living in Grenache Village. Needless to say I enjoyed the hell out of it. Oh boy, where do I begin with this film? First off, it really is amazing to look back on this film and see just how far society has come in the past 40 years. In "Chained Girls", lesbianism is portrayed as some kind of a social disease that can be and needs to be eradicated (hell, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness at this time). Through out the film, facts pop up showing lesbianism to be an epidemic running rampant through the female population. There is also no dialogue in the film, the "plot" is moved along by Joel Holt's narration as each badly acted segment is shown one after another. This is one hell of a mid 60's exploitation experience. It could have used more nudity (but then again, what film couldn't?) but overall this is still a satisfying bit of sexploitation.