A beautiful vintage movie poster created for the movie the big doll house from. Two of the first tropical hellhole womeninprison flicks. Brown is wrongly imprisoned when a gangster plants heroin in her purse in the big doll house 1971. Haaa haaa haa that sid james laugh is just the best laugh ever this is a great family film like the good old days. Pam grier is an ultratough convict in the first and a sadistic lesbian warden in the second. Five of the womenalong with the help of two menplot an escape. Pam grier biography, age, husband, children, net worth and. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Throughout the different eras, women have been displayed to play distinct roles in society, all of which have been respective to standards of that time.
Toning things down a bit from big doll house, hill returned to his old stomping grounds the following year to make the big bird cage, essentially a spoof of the wip genre. The film follows six female inmates throughout daily life in a gritty, unidentified supratropical prison. She attended east high school and metropolitan state college. The big doll house is a 1971 american women in prison film starring pam grier, judy brown, roberta collins, brooke mills. His the big doll house launched an entire genre of women in prison pix as well as pam grier, whom he later brought to stardom in coffy and foxy brown. Mcgee pat woodell, the big doll house, billie charlene jones, the curious female and lori laurie rose, the working girls are running for their lives with spyros head of security, magda lisa todd, the doll squad, hot on their sweaty tails. Jack hill grew up around movieshis father was a designer for the disney studios and warner brothers. Big doll house was the second film for my new company new world pictures and i wanted a sure hit. Worth the admission price in itself in the big doll house are the knockdown, dragout fights between prisoner. The big bird cage 1972, big doll house 1971 and women in cages 1971 director jack hills two wip classics. With roberta collins, pam grier, judith brown, brooke mills.
Jack hill began his career, like so many of his contemporaries, working for roger corman, then wrote and directed the cult classic spider baby, which introduced his favorite actor, sid haig. She also starred in black mama white mama and scream blacula scream in 1973. A non sequel followup, titled the big bird cage, was released in 1972. The big doll house is a 1971 american women in prison film starring. Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors. The big doll house 1971the big bird cage 1972 director. While matching wits and tits with evil lesbo matron pam grier and fighting off the sexcapades of horny hellcats roberta collins and sofia moran, she bares torture and tit tickling in the big house until the chance to escape her erotic fate presents itself. One of these filmmakers is jack hill, whose films in the decade began with the big doll house in 1971 and. The 1971 new world pictures film the big doll house see below was also directed by hill, produced by jane schaffer and featured pam grier. Jack hill knew how to tell a story, and build to an actionpacked climax, and he elicited strong performances from a cast comprised of. Theater trailers for roger cormans the big bird cage 1971 and women in cages 1972. Worth the admission price in itself in the big doll house are the knockdown, dragout fights between prisoner pam grier and sadistic guard sid haig. The big doll house isnt a masterpiece of world cinema.
From the women in cages collection, out on bluray and dvd more info. Pam grier was born as pamela suzette grier is an american actress. He went to the university of california to study film, where he was a classmate of francis ford coppolathey worked together on student productions and later both apprenticed. Baby doll house toy and kinder surprise eggs play youtube. Women in prison films have always represented a curiosity for moviegoers as far back as vintage cinema. Later the same year, the film women in cages featured a similar story and setting, much the same cast, and was shot in the same abandoned prison buildings. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival. The big doll house is a 1971 american women in prison film starring pam grier, judy brown, roberta collins, brooke mills, and pat woodell.
She received her honorary doctorate of humane letters from the university of maryland eastern shore in 2011. With pam grier, anitra ford, candice roman, teda bracci. Cabaret is a 1972 american musical drama film directed by bob fosse, and starring liza minnelli, michael york, and joel grey set in berlin during the weimar republic in 1931, under the presence of the growing nazi party, the film is loosely based on the 1966 broadway musical cabaret by kander and ebb, which was adapted from christopher isherwoods semiautobiographical novel the berlin. Jack hills onscreen credit reads written and directed by jack hill. This film was followed up a year later by one titled the big bird cage 1972, which also featured grier, and was written and directed by. Director jake hill discovered her talent and gave her starring roles in his women in prison films. She was born may 26, 1949, in winstonsalem, north carolina, to gwendolyn sylvia and clarence ransom grier, jr. Like the big doll house, the big bird cage was also shot in the philippines, but the setting was not specified in the story. The big doll house is cultmeister jack hills stab at women in prison sexploitation and its ridiculously vulgar as one might expect. Pam grier and kathryn loder in the big doll house 1971 brooke mills in the big. Though the islands were a cheap place to produce movies in the 70s, the working conditions were boot camplike. Kathryn loder had to be hospitalized after becoming seriously ill during the shooting of this film. Grier and haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Circa 1879, women were expected to dominate the field of keeping a man content as well raising sound and buoyant children. The big doll house the 1971 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. The big doll house 1971 and the big bird cage 1972. Very few directors of the exploitation business in the 1970s were able to successfully create one classic film after another and have each one of them develop a firm cult following in the ensuing years. Roberta collins, pam grier and sid haig in particular are real hoots with some great moments and.
Both were filmed cheaply in the philippines along with the big doll house also with grier. Female prisoners in a phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Full nudity and violence, is what horror fans like me what. Big egg surprise opening minnie mouse eggs surprises toys kinder egg doll house disney junior videobdc6wboi2. The big doll house 1971 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. When a crisis of conscience gets the better of tony, he decides to help some of them escape. Finally, with cormans aid, she made her film debut in the 1970 russ meyer cult classic beyond the valley of the dolls, followed by an appearance in jack hills 1971 cheapie the big doll house. Lets play with baby doll house toy with kinder joy toys enjoy and subscribe, thanks toypudding. It is a hell of a drivein movie and the best wip women in prison movie ever made. Exploitation filmmakers loved shower scenes, such as this one with pam grier from the big doll house captured on film if one could total up all the hours of screen time that have been devoted to imprisonment, all the years of effort that have been put into making prison films, and if one could count all the people that had seen them, one might be tempted to wonder if it had all been worth. Pam grier, judith brown, brooke mills in the big doll house 1971 2 min deeannricker 62. The big doll house, like some of hills other movies, was shot in the philippines, with the cast and crew making up plot elements and dialogue in nearguerrilla filmmaking. To say anymore would spoil things, so ill leave it at that.
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