ThiefHott Too much of everything

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

SnoopyStyle Billy Harris has only 6 months left to serve for grass. He gets transfered out of the easy library job into hard chain-gang Georgia State Labor Farm. He is chained up with Mike Weed who supposedly killed a girl. The prisoners attack the guards and everybody makes a break for it. Harris doesn't want to run but Weed threatens to chop off his leg. They go to Harris' girlfriend Ann. While Harris is out, Weed rapes Ann. They avoid a road block and stop at a farm where the farmer has a really young wife.This is a horribly misleading title. The filmmaking is amateurish. The lead actors are not that compelling. They're not bad as amateur actors but don't expect more than that. Harris and Weed are set up for some very compelling conflict but the movie doesn't develop it. The farmer and his wife provide some additional possibilities. However I have no rooting interest in any of them.

Wizard-8 Sometimes I wish there were truth-in-advertising laws when it comes to movies. With a title like "Chain Gang Women", you might think you know what the movie is about. Guess again. This is not a women-in-prison movie. In fact, there are no women to be seen in the movie until around the halfway point of the movie! Had the movie found other ways to be entertaining, I might have forgiven the person who titled this movie. But this is a slow and endless exercise. It takes half an hour before the jailbreak, then the movie slows down again with the escaped prisoners not doing much more than sit on their tails while hiding. I guess the production values are okay for a cheapie - there is some decent location shooting in what seems to be actual prisons, the movie is decently shot, and they even sprung for some filming from helicopters. But the movie is often so boring that you'll be thinking of things from why the rapes come across as so matter-of-fact, to why the filmmakers thought that southern California could pass as locations in Georgia.

catfish-er I watched CHAIN GANG WOMEN as part of BCI Eclipse' Drive-in Cult Classics (featuring Crown International Pictures releases) on DVD.From other comments, I'm sure this is the same digital transfer as from Rhino. As such, there is not much to get excited about here. And, as others noted, the title is very misleading.*** SPOILER ALERT, this is the entire premise of the movie *** Boy meets boy in jail. Boys escape; and, boy meets girl.Other boy rapes girl; boys leave girl.Boys find other girl; other boy rapes girl.Girl seduces boy. Husband kills both boys.Girl is miserable.WHAT A STINKER -- though I did like that quad screen effect too.The music was okay; but, it got on my nerves at the end.

natt-2 I was quite surprised by this film. Even if the acting at times is painfully bad, the twists and turning in the story kept me entertained for the full duration of the film.I especially liked the surprise ending. That Weeds was going to die felt apparent, but I did not expect the "hero" to go down with him and even off-screen at that.The story about the unwilling wife and the old husband came as a surprise as well.Overall, an entertaining movie of a kind that is no longer made.The only thing I was disturbed by was the lameness of the violence and sex scenes, they were very cut, looking almost like an episode of Dallas'(had kind of the same feeling to it as well).