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Leofwine_draca A sequel of sorts to the previous year's THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, this is a cheesy slice of women-in-prison nonsense – filmed in the sweaty, jungle confines of the Philippines where the mad warden has constructed a huge wooden machine to help in sugar processing. The WIP genre is a notorious one amongst genre fans, who can frequently expect ample offerings of nudity and violence that go hand in hand with the tasteless plots and diabolical scripting. Yet THE BIG BIRD CAGE is something different, a film that actually focuses on the (surprisingly successful) comedy inherent in such a situation. Exploitation king Jack Hill knows exactly what he's doing and he makes this film with his tongue firmly in his cheek, offering laughs a-plenty as the unbelievable shenanigans play out.Headlining the cast is '70s black starlet Pam Grier but her prominent role on the advertising is actually a misnomer as she isn't actually in it a lot, just taking part in a couple of machine-gun wielding action scenes. More prominent is the pretty-but-wooden Anitra Ford, a glamorous model best known to US audiences for her long-running appearance on TV gameshow THE PRICE IS RIGHT. A bunch of exploitation stalwarts fill out the cast, and a couple of the best turns come from a hilarious Sid Haig as the laidback revolutionary and the Filipino Peter Lorre, Vic Diaz, given a more prominent role than usual as a gay prison guard! The plot twists and turns are predictable and there's the usual run of in-fighting, mad women, women in cages, unpleasant death and inevitable escape. There's a lighter tone than per usual for the genre and the sex and violence is definitely turned down for this one – it never gets anything near gritty. Things chance for the action-oriented climax where things take a downbeat turn at odds with the rest of the movie's playful atmosphere. At the end of the day, THE BIG BIRD CAGE is nothing new but it does manage to be fun – something that can't be said for a lot of these genre movies.

Ben Larson Pam Grier and Sid Haig; what a combination. They are revolutionaries, and plot to get into a women's prison to get recruits for their cause. Lots of fighting; even mud wrestling.While Grier works inside the prison, Haig pretends to be gay to get next to the head guard (Vic Diaz).This women's prison had a male Warder played by Andres Centenera. He is a real character.Anitra Ford(Invasion of the Bee Girls) provided another interesting character as a nymphomaniac actress, which the government wanted out of town - so they locked her up.Lots of action especially at the end.

lost-in-limbo Jack Hill is back again (a year after 'The Big Doll House'), to write and direct another low-budgeted drive-in Roger Corman produced women-in-prison joint in the tropics of the banana republic. This second run-of-the-mill dig is meaner, snappier, sweatier and is a lot more accomplished technical production, but I really do have a soft spot for rough-around-the-edges, but enjoyable 'Big Doll House' that sees me actually favour it over this particular effort… plus it had the feisty blonde buxom Roberta Collins! Nonetheless Hill competently engraves the prominent staples (even adding few new novel ideas) and patterns one hope for from its exploitative subject matter, which is handled in a brightly lit manner than truly beating it down with despair. Sleaze, violence, profanity and a whole lot of socking personality all rolled in one. There's no better to deliver it… a lively Pam Grier and charming Sid Haig come to the show with such an electric chemistry. When they go missing-in-action, you simply crave for them to appear again. Vic Diaz is delightfully amusing as camp gay prison guard and Anitra Ford adds brazen class, but seems to be struggling to keep a straight face. Saying that it seemed more comically daffy, as the script holds a cheeky edge amongst it harden dialogues. In the latter half it became insanely humorous and hysterical. Hill confidently executes it with a little more briskness and latitude, concentrating not only on the posing drama at hand, but detailing the exotically open locations with crisp photography work despite the limitations. The story can open up a notable can of worms, but it's in-your-face and well-rounded flavor made it hard not to simply enjoy.

Infofreak Jack Hill's follow-up (but not a sequel) to his earlier 'The Big Doll House' is a much more confident and enjoyable movie. Hill wrote as well as directed this one and I think that makes a world of difference. The basic model of the earlier film is followed but Hill shrewdly saw that the handful of scenes between Pam Grier and Sid Haig in that movie showed plenty of potential, so this time round he casts them as singing Revolutionary lovers (yeah baby!), an inspired move that really makes this one something special. The foxy Anitra Ford ('Invasion Of The Bee Girls') plays a sassy character who crosses their paths early in the film during a robbery. Super cool Django (Haig) takes a fancy to her but before he can do anything about it she is arrested and sent to a brutal prison. (I should point out that even though this movie, like the others in this short-lived 1970s cycle, was filmed in the Philippines, it is set in some nameless Banana Republic). Before too long Grier also finds herself in the same compound, which is dominated by "the bird cage", a strange contraption the women are forced to work on as punishment. Django cooks up a nutty plan to save her by pretending to be gay to ingratiate himself with one of the camps (very camp) guards Rocco, played by Vic Diaz, who later reunited with Haig and Grier in 'Black Mama White Mama'. This is a fantastic piece of entertainment overall and a guaranteed hoot! Personally I would say it is only rivalled by 'Caged Heat' and 'Chained Heat' as far as women in prison exploitation movies go. Highly recommended fun.