Swamp Women (1956)

Swamp Women
Directed by Roger Corman
Written by David Stern
1956/USA
Bernard Woolner Productions
First viewing/YouTube

Billie: [digging for diamonds] Ouch! I busted the only nail I had left!

If you are interested in a very bad movie, women in short-shorts, cat fights, and a few smiles, this one is for you.

After what seems like five or ten minutes of stock footage of the New Orleans mardi gras, we are introduced to an oil man (Treat (AKA Mike) Connors) and the gold digger who is after his money.  The couple decide to make off to the swamp where he wants to check out an oil prospect.  Then we get to the main story.  A police woman is on the trail of a fortune in diamonds.  She is convinced that some female convicts know where the loot is stashed and gets herself locked up with them.  She helps them escape and they lead her to that self-same swamp.  The girls capture the oil man and his girlfriend as hostages.  They spend the rest of the film fussing, fighting, coming on to the stud muffin, and confronting the elements.  With poor Marie Windsor and Beverly Garland as swamp women.

This has the advantage of being only 67 minutes long and does not overstay its welcome. Mainly interesting for an early look at Roger Corman’s money saving film techniques.  The acting is not as bad as it could have been thanks largely to Windsor.  What in the hell was she thinking?  Probably about the pay check.

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