New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...
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| Maria Schell | ... | Leonie Caroll | |
| Herbert Lom | ... | Governor Santos | |
| Mercedes McCambridge | ... | Thelma Diaz | |
| Luciana Paluzzi | ... | Natalie Mendoza | |
| Maria Rohm | ... | Marie (as Maria Rohn) | |
| Rosalba Neri | ... | Zoie | |
| Elisa Montés | ... | Helga (as Eliza Montes) | |
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Valentina Godoy | ... | Rosalie |
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New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and submitted to torture, rape and lesbianism. When the Minister of Justice replaces Diaz by Leonie Caroll, Marie believes that her life will improve and her case will be reopened. However, Marie is disappointed with the new warden and decides to escape with two other inmates. But their runaway scheme fails and the three women are chased not only by the guards, but also by male prisoners that have not seen women for many years. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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EnglishRelease Date:
23 April 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Women's Penitentiary XII See more »Company Credits
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Cinematografica Associati (CI.AS.), Corona Filmproduktion, Hesperia Films S.A. See more »
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(video) (cut) | (banned) | (X Rated) | (Blue Underground Blu-ray)Sound Mix:
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Marie: Where are they taking us?
Helga: To the island, over there.
Helga: [to redhead] What's eating you? Looking forward to your holidays? Three years the judge said, didn't he? I know the medicine you need, and they don't stock it over there. Home sweet home for all three of us. The Spaniards built it and christened it, Castillo de la Muerte.
Natalie Mendoza: "Castle of Death".
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Lyrics by Audrey Nohra (uncredited)
Sung by Barbara McNair (uncredited)
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Italian censorship visa # 53649 delivered on 10-4-1969. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Marie: Where are they taking us?
Helga: To the island, over there.
Helga: [to redhead] What's eating you? Looking forward to your holidays? Three years the judge said, didn't he? I know the medicine you need, and they don't stock it over there. Home sweet home for all three of us. The Spaniards built it and christened it, Castillo de la Muerte.
Natalie Mendoza: "Castle of Death".
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Alternate Versions
There are two French versions with English subtitles: the director's cut, and the hardcore version, with about 20 minute total of genitalia and sex inserts shot by Bruno Mattei, showing no faces and obviously different actors. See more »Soundtracks
The Day I Was BornLyrics by Audrey Nohra (uncredited)
Sung by Barbara McNair (uncredited)
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New inmate Marie (Maria Rohm) arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos (Herbert Lom) and submitted to torture, rape and lesbianism.
Apparently, this film "kicked off the genre in a new direction" and "was a big box office success in the U.S. in 1969." I find this somewhat hard to believe... because as much as I love exploitation and Jess Franco, this just is not all that great. Even with veteran actor Herbert Lom, it more or less has just a group of women wandering around doing a whole lot of nothing.
Not surprisingly, Franco continued to make more films in this genre, probably turning a quick profit: Women in Cell Block 9 (1978), Ilsa, The Wicked Warden (1977), Barbed Wire Dolls (1975), Women Behind Bars (1975), and Sadomania (1980).