10 Violent Women
This film was written and directed by B-movie mogul Ted V. Mikels. Ted even plays a jewelry fence in the movie. This is more of a Women In Prison movie than anything else, so it could be in my Women In Prison section, but I put it in Ted's section since it was his movie. Ted dabbled in just about every exploitation genre. I suppose that his movies fall into two categories: ridiculously inept, and stereotypical of their times. Ted always tried to deliver the goods in whatever genre he was working in. He just wasn't very good at it. His best movies are when he falls hysterically short of the mark. In 10 Violent Women, he comes close to hitting the mark, which means that it's not as entertaining as some of his other efforts. This is a stereotypical 70s B-movie with the 70s soundtrack music (lots of wah wah pedal) and a scene in a disco.
The plot: 10 women (allegedly...every time I counted the group, I came up with less than ten women) decide to change their hum drum lives by pulling off a jewelry heist. Now they try to fence the jewels for a million dollars to Ted, who plays a jewelry fence. He isn't willing to give them any cash, just a bunch of coke, so the girls kill him (one of the girls stomps on him repeatedly, putting the heel of her pump through his heart). They steal the coke, so now they have a million in jewels and a million and a half in coke. The girls go to some club and one of the girls tries to sell some coke to two undercover narcotics agents. She gets shot and killed and the group goes to jail. In jail, the girls are subjected to the typical cruelties that you find in most Women In Prison flicks. There's a cruel lesbian warden who inflicts cruel tortures on the girls who reject her lesbian advances, there is a nasty queen bee inmate who is also trying to beat them up and so on. There is a shower scene and a catfight in the shower, but most of the women are wearing their underwear while taking the shower (?!?). Eventually, the girls break out of prison. There is a whole other subplot going on where one of the jewels that the girls stole was a sacred scarab and the owner, a wealthy oil sheik, is on their trail trying to get the scarab back.
So, this movie is an example of a stereotypical 70s exploitation movie. It attempts to deliver some action, and it attempts to deliver some Women In Prison thrills. While it delivers the goods a little bit, it all plays rather flat. The women in the movie are not particularly good looking and it's not as lurid and sleazy as it could be. If you rank it against other Women In Prison movies, it would come out average at best. I'll give it a 3.