The Big Doll House

United States, Philippines

1971

95 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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EXEC Roger Corman, John Ashley, Eddie Romero

PROD Jane Schaffer, Cirio H. Santiago

CAST Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Brooke Mills, Pat Woodell, Sid Haig, Christiane Schmidtmer

SOUND Willie Arce

Synopsis

Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women—along with the help of two men—plot an escape. –IMDb

Director

Jack Hill grew up around movies – his father was a designer for Disney Studios and Warner Brothers. He went to the University of California to study film, where he was a classmate of Francis Ford Coppola – they worked together on student productions and later both apprenticed with Roger Corman, working on The Terror (1963). While Coppola went on to Oscardom, Jack continued with B-flicks. He didn’t make a lot of films, and while all were low budget they all (except The Jezebels (1975)) made money, and his early ‘blaxploitaton’ films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) were hits. Soon after The Jezebels (1975) he stopped making movies so he and his wife Elke could pursue meditation and he could write novels. Today his films are hailed as cult classics, thanks primarily to Quentin Tarantino, who saw Hill’s work as it made its way to video. With retrospectives and a re-release of The Jezebels (1975), his career seems to be reviving. —IMDb… read more