|  | Style: Drama/erotic
Director: Jesus Franco
Main Cast: Maria Schell (Leonie Caroll), Herbert Lom (Governor Santos), Mercedes McCambridge (Thelma Diaz), Maria Rohm (Marie), Rosalba Neri (Zoe), Elisa Montés (Helga), Luciana Paluzzi (Natalie Mendoza), Valentina Godoy (Rosalie), José María Blanco (Doctor), Mike Brendel, Elsa Zabala, Ana Lucarella, Juan Antonio Riquelme, María Vico
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| Thelma Diaz, cruel and criminal prison ward of a women's penitentiary, has no qualms against death or torture. But when a new state official takes notice of the body count coming out of the prison, Diaz must prove her ability and hide the truth. As the powers that be turn up the pressure it sets up a daring escape by several of the ladies. Many "Women in prison" films offer the usual (lesbian) softcore action and nasty torture sequences that often exploit, but not much here. The photography is fine but with most of the action taking place indoors the camera-work is not flashy. The acting is pretty decent but the script is a bit "talky" in an unnecessary way. The softcore action is not very titillating since many of the scenes are shot in an "artistic" fashion - the X-rated version does offer some hardcore inserts but you can easily tell they were added later since they don't match. "99 Women" has some style but not a lot of substance. A bit disappointing. There are a lot of "cuts" released - the UK version is no less than 38 minutes shorter (censorship). Only one released Spanish version offers the full film. The film is also known under many other names, like "99 donne", "Les Brulantes", "Der Heiße Tod", "Island of Despair", "Isle of Lost Women", "Prostitutes in Prison", "Sex im Frauengefängnis", "The Hot Death". |
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