by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Despite its lurid title, Betrayed Women is more subdued than the usual "babes behind bars" melodrama. The scene is a Southern women's prison, where the inmates are subjected to all manner of sadism and brutality. State's attorney Jeff (Tom Drake) arrives to investigate prison conditions, whereupon he is taken hostage during a breakout fomented by gun moll Honey (Beverly Michaels) and lifer Kate (Carole Mathews). As it happens, another of the hostages, inmate Nora (Peggy Knudsen), has fallen in love with Jeff. Esther Dale does her usual as a cruel prison matron, stealing the show from the capable but colorless Tom Drake.
characteristics
- Lock-up
- Mother
- Jail
- Investigator
- Inmate
- Prison
- Security
- Woman
- Warden
- Unmarried
- Teen
- Illegal
- Hostage
- Captive
- Brig
