Policewomen
Director:
Lee
Frost
Year: 1974
Rating: 4.5
Damn, Pepper Anderson
never showed up. What a bummer. This was made in the same year that Police
Woman began its run on TV with Angie Dickinson. So easy to mistake this one
for that. But not once you begin watching. This does have a tough independent
attractive police woman who goes undercover, but this is unadulterated trash.
In a good way. Low budget but with a large cast of nubile females purring
and strutting around in bikinis most of the time. Probably did well in the
drive-in circuit. It isn't very good in any way really other than the women,
but I made my way through it with a few breaks along the way.
It begins in exciting kung fu fashion. A
group of female prisoners make a jail break, but police woman Lacie Bond
(Sandra Currie) chops most of them down with one karate blow. Clearly, she
was brought up watching cheap kung fu films. Two women escape though - one
of them being played by Jeannie "TNT Jackson" Bell who on two occasions shows
why she was a Playboy Playmate of the month. And a bit of trivia, she lived
with Richard Burton for two years in Switzerland. Another division is so
impressed with Lacie that they ask her to help with a special assignment.
Infiltrate an all female gang that is smuggling in gold and robbing armored
trucks. First though, she has to prove herself by taking on the police karate
instructor. William Smith. Who is about twice her size. But she kicks his
ass! Girl Power!
They all live together in a gated compound
hanging out in their bikinis and having fun. The two jailbirds of course
join them after Jeannie passes the initiation by beating up one of the other
girls (Eileen Saki, who ran Rosie's bar on MASH). The gang is run by an old
nasty lady who looks like she just crawled out of her coffin. She has a much
younger bodybuilder boyfriend. Well, you sort of know where this is going
and it does so grudgingly. And I went with it.
