Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Mamie Van Doren | ... | Penny Lowe | |
Lori Nelson | ... | Jane Lowe | |
John Russell | ... | Russ Tropp | |
Don Burnett | ... | Bob Steele | |
Eddie Cochran | ... | Bong | |
Lurene Tuttle | ... | Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp | |
Yvonne Lime | ... | Baby | |
Jeanne Carmen | ... | Lillibet | |
Robert Foulk | ... | Sheriff Mitch Bowers | |
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Wayne Taylor | ... | Duke |
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Jered Barclay | ... | Ralph (as Jerry Barclay) |
Keith Richards | ... | Angelo | |
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Valerie Reynolds | ... | Arkie |
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Lucita | ... | Margarita |
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Glenn Dixon | ... | Jack Landis |
Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny-dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women are put in the cotton fields to work off their sentence. Tropp marries the middle-aged widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he falls in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
You have to be a real stick in the mud not to get a kick out of this movie; or it's sister film "Girl's Town." I am still wondering what inspired Pinky's great speech ("I am a just man") but the rest is simply. Cheesy rock and roll, cool chicks, and a moral lesson driven home with the subtly of a huge Cotton gin falling on you. Many of the current political problems with our immigrant work force are foreshadowed. If only today's politicos had a Mamie to help iron out all the fuss. If only they had given Eddie Cochran a better song.... The MST3K version is worth seeking out; but this is one that stands on it's own.