Girls in Prison (1956)

Directed by Edward L. Cahn. Starring Joan Taylor, Richard Denning, Adele Jergens, Helen Gilbert, Lance Fuller, Raymond Hatton, Jane Darwell, Phyllis Coates, Laurie Mitchell, Diana Darrin, Mae Marsh.

Dopey AIP women-in-prison picture; if you’re gonna go the kitschy sexploitation route, why not give the audience what it came for instead of so many lengthy cutaways to the outside world? Routine setup shows a new inmate (Taylor) learning the ropes while being tight-lipped about the missing loot in the bank robbery she was put away for; Denning’s prison chaplain is sympathetic, while her at-large accomplice (Fuller) puts pressure on her father (Hatton). There’s a catfight, some innuendo, an earthquake, and a prison break, but it’s all been done better and/or more explicitly and luridly elsewhere. Tall, blonde Jergens muscles for attention in every scene in which she appears, and hardly anyone puts up a fight. Final film for gossip column-regular Helen Gilbert.

41/100