Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Genres - Drama, Crime |
Sub-Genres - Sexploitation |
Release Date - Nov 5, 1976 (USA - Unknown), Nov 5, 1976 (USA) |
Run Time - 97 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Robert Firsching
Originally made for television, this delightfully sordid women's prison film has a pair of co-eds (Deborah Raffin and Lynne Moody) traveling through a small town, where they are arrested by a sleazy sheriff (Chuck Connors) and sent to a work-farm. The usual sadistic goings-on result, including rape, murder, and white slavery, but this is a bit more interesting than most similar offerings just for the oddball cast. Ralph Bellamy appears as a judge, Brady Bunch dad Robert Reed is the warden, and Gilligan's Island star Tina Louise is a prison guard. A highpoint of a year in which television seemed almost like a Southern drive-in, Nightmare in Badham County is a must for fans of smarmy small-screen exploitation.
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white-slavery, woman, arrest, atrocity, backwoods, brutality, exploitation, frame-up, hitchhiker, lecher, lust, maniac, prison, prison-farm, prostitute/prostitution, sheriff, slavery
