Thursday, April 24, 2014

Fugitive Girls (1974)

aka Five Loose Women

How bad is it? It's a women's prison film written by Ed Wood.
Should you see it? Oh yeah. Just don't expect much.

Stephen Apostoloff worked on the fringes of Hollywood and directed a few exploitation films under the name A.C. Stephen. He had a professional relationship with Edward D. Wood, Jr. (of "Plan 9" fame), who wrote scripts for him for not very much money. This story seems a loose remake of Woods' "The Violent Years," going from PG to R by moving from teenagers looking for kicks to adult cons escaped from prison. Wood himself makes his last film appearance here, as the guy who gasses up their car at the air field before being knocked unconscious; be forewarned, though, that Ed not only aged 20 years since "Glen or Glenda?" but gained weight and appears to have been ill.

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