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

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Aaron1375 I saw this film as part of an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 which, honestly, is probably the only way I would have ever watched it. If it had never come on the cult riffing show, chances are very good that I never would have seen this early Roger Corman movie. There are a few films that I have seen on MST3K that I also saw uncut, but the show did bring a lot of films to the table that I may have otherwise not seen. Early Roger Corman films, to me, are usually very boring and plodding. He then became super awesome in the mid-70's and during the 80's where he made some incredibly cheesy, but very fun to watch horror films. Then he returned to badness in the 90's again where he even remade a few of his earlier films that were pretty fun to watch and managed to drain the fun right out of them the second time around. During the early portion of his career, a lot of his films were like this one. Lots of padding to go along with a slow moving plot, almost as if the scripts were written as a television show and were stretched to movie length. Not many films during his early days before the films like Piranha and Humanoids from the Deep, that really could catch your attention. However, you had to give it to him, he did make a wide variety of movies as this one is a crime caper, he did westerns and he did a few horrors as well. Most of his films that were featured on MST3K came during this era of his career.The story has a man and his beloved, well not really his beloved, enjoying Mardi Gras. For some reason the young woman wants to go into the swamp and look at this guy's oil wells. Meanwhile, a female officer is about to go undercover in a prison where she is going to help three hardened criminals escape so that they can lead the cop through a swamp to some diamonds the females stashed there during an earlier heist. Well, the two groups converge and wackiness ensues! Well, there is a scene with a gator that is sort of wacky, but what you actually get is scenes of scenery going by, camping, death, more scenery, more camping, more death and so on. I think after they completed this film they moved up the road and filmed, "The Gunslinger" as a couple of the actresses in this one are also in that one, though this one may have been the second one filmed...This made for an okay episode of MST3K, though there are only so many riffs one can make about the fact there is not a lot going on besides looking at the swamp. The gator attack scene made for a few chuckles as the one girl was clearly not in the swamp, but rather in a pool. This one was a funnier episode than "The Gunslinger" though, but not as good as say, "The Undead". All the films were Corman movies.So, not really a great film by an stretch of the imagination. It would never of held my interest without the gang from the satellite of love riffing it. The only thing in it worth seeing are the girls in their shorts. Otherwise, all the film contains is a lot of arguing and a lot of swamp. Pretty sure in real life they would have figured out the one woman was undercover before they ever made it to the swamp, but you got to suspend your disbelief a little for a film such as this. One of those films that probably would have benefited from being made in the 70's or 80's because then we may have been treated to a couple of topless scenes and maybe a gory gator kill, as it is though, the film is mainly just looking at women in shorts in the swamp...

drystyx Four women stage a jailbreak to get diamonds out of a swamp. One of them is undercover, however. Good thing, since the other three are very deadly.One of the women is a homicidal maniac, but not nearly the cliché that we usually see for this character. She doesn't have many dimensions, but clearly more than the modern horror movie homicidal maniac has.Another woman gets kidnapped, along with a hunky guy. The kidnapped girl is by far the most gorgeous of the women, but she is "film fatally flawed" in every detail, so her early exit is no spoiler.The other two cute girls have the big catfight at the end, but there are many catfights along the way. I'm not big on blocking fights, but these catfights looked very well done, maybe the most authentic looking ones you'll see on film.Gators, swamp boats, and mud add to the spectacle.Since this is movie where mostly women get killed, it isn't much of a "guy movie", but more of a "chick flick", the sort that girls like to see in order to cuddle close to a guy at a theater. That's probably about the only use for this movie. Still, it isn't what you would call a poor movie. If you don't expect a lot, you'll be happy enough.

whpratt1 This film might be considered awful, but this film was very entertaining and Roger Corman created a very low budget film with some great stars like Mike Connors, (Bob Matthews) and Beverly Garland as Vera. This film takes place in Bayou Lacombe, Louisiana and New Orleans, and deals with a woman named Police Lt. Lee Hampton, (Carole Mathews) who is willing to enter a prison of women and obtain information about stolen diamonds. Vera and Josie, (Marie Windsor) are women prisoners and Lee Hampton is in the same jail cell and cons these two criminals into escaping from jail in order to obtain these diamonds and catch them in a very swampy area in which they are hidden. Bob Matthews has the misfortune of being held prisoner by these very sexy and hot young gals and he has to try and out smart these very cruel and dangerous women. Enjoy.

Lee Eisenberg Obviously, "Mystery Science Theater 3000" showed "Swamp Women" (alternately called "Swamp Diamonds") because it's such a slipshod production, and because the movie gets silly whenever the women start fighting. But otherwise, Roger Corman's directorial debut is quite fun, as some female convicts escape a New Orleans prison in search of some diamonds out in the swamp. With them are an undercover cop, and a man (Mike Connors) and his hubby. It turns into a real treat when they cut the legs off of their pants.True, the movie is pretty short on real plot, and you can tell that some scenes were filmed in a swimming pool, but otherwise it's a real pleasure; guilty pleasure, that is. Of course, I do recommend the "MST3K" version.