thoughts on Swamp Women(1956)

NOTE: I borrowed this DVD from a friend.

A new inmate is moved into jail, once there she joins the nardo gang, after meeting the other 3 girls. Soon after they escape prison. During the chase they run into a young couple, who they kidnap while trying to find a bundle of diamonds the gang had stolen and hide in a swamp.



Swamp Women is one of Roger Corman's early movies,and like most of his early fare it's a cheap quickie for a double feature. Knowing that i wasn't really counting on anything amazing from it. To my surprise it was actually one hell of a entertaining movie.

It's the perfect Drive in movie in many ways. It's classic tough dames ready for violence at any time,with plenty of hard boiled talk straight from the period it was made. That's what makes these movies so much fun, i couldn't see this movie being made in the 40's or today,it's a great time capsule.



It being made in the 50's, the level of sleaze is actually higher due to the fact they couldn't really show anything without censor problems. The 4 women of course go for the man in the couple, and the woman is soon killed off.The girlfriend drowns and is never spoken about again. The 4 women sneak to talk to him and that's how the mind games start. For extra sleaze, theres many cat fights thurout. Along with that theres some cheesecake with the bath scenes.



This being a Corman movie theres going to be many cheap movie tricks up his sleeve.Lots of chap sets,stock footage, and plenty of filler. One big trick that stuck out the most was the car chase and prison break. In the car the background is black but it's bright daylight outside, and before they even get into the car, you can hear guards but there never shown.

Swamp Women was just a blast to watch with all of it's hard boiled talk and enough cheese to fill up any bad movie fan. Great early Corman.