Swamp Women (1956)

I love this movie so much

Highly Overrated But Still Good

From my favorite movies..

What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

When I first heard the name "Swamp Women" for a movie, I thought it was going to be a B-movie where people found female creatures that lived in the swamp. Sure, that would have been goofy, but it was a lot more exciting than what we actually got! Roger Corman has never had a good track record. This movie features a couple running into some women who escaped from prison looking for diamonds. As with most bad movies of this era, it's really easy to tell it was made in the 1950's. The movie's biggest weakness is probably how boring it is.These characters just have so little personality. What I just described was really all that went on. You'd think there'd be some giant monster involved. If you're going to make a cheesy movie, at least have some action in it. The women are especially annoying as they fight for no reason and keep slapping everybody. I guess the only good thing was the color, but even that looked like it was done pretty shoddily. This was probably one of Corman's first color films. *

what a delight this was by Roger Corman, king of the B movies,, first off you got all these pretty women running around in shorts, so for starters nothing wrong with that,, the movie itself was pretty darn good, you have a plot that goes like this.. female undercover police officer goes to prison as an inmate to break out the three girls who have managed to hide lot's of precious jewels worth millions. question is will the girls trust their "new Partner" as time goes on they do so they all go down into the bayou, swamp whatever you wanna call it, and that's when things really start to heat up,, the girls take a young couple hostage and then things really start to heat up when the girls begin to argue about how things should be done.. very good movie from roger corman.

Policewoman Carole Mathews goes "undercover" to join Marie Windsor, Beverly Garland, and Jil Jarmyn in prison. The "Gang of Four" escape, and head for the local swamp, to look for some stashed diamonds. Who would hide their booty in a swamp? They take turns touching tied-up hostage Mike Connors. His girlfriend gets eaten by the alligator. Let's not beat around the bush. Stripped to its basics, "Swamp Women" was made for 1950s viewers to watch four naughty young women escape from prison, get drunk, cut off the legs of their pants, and wrestle in the swamp. Directed by Roger Corman. In color.** Swamp Women (1955) Roger Corman ~ Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland

This film practically screams "cheap" from start to finish. The dialog is lousy, the acting amateurish and the music pure "cheese". Although the film cost more than PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE to produce, it probably didn't cost much more! The film opens with some Mardi Gras footage and you are introduced to Mike Connors (TV's "Mannix") and his "dame". Then, abruptly, the footage switches to a women's prison were some more tough dames are discussing some stolen diamonds--unaware that their new bunkmate is a cop in disguise! When these evil dames escape, they make a bee-line for the stolen loot. Too bad for Connors and his hot tomato that they stumble upon these tough broads! What follows is a rather dull boat trip through the bayou punctuated by silly dialog (featuring lots of "cat fighting", frequent use of words such as "dame", "broad" and "loot" as well as frequent whining by Connor's girlfriend) and stock footage that is rather randomly inserted. Well, at least it seemed dull until some of the women noticed that young and studly Connors was too much man to leave alone--and they began slobbering and fighting to get into his pants.All this slobbering is punctuated when the undercover cop falls into the swamp and she can't swim. Connors springs to the rescue and quickly dispatches an alligator with just a pocketknife AND he saves her from drowning---what a guy! Inexplicably, just moments later, the ladies take a break and a couple of them take off their clothes to take a swim--including the one who couldn't swim in the previous scene! Oh, well,...I guess they figured the movie needed a cheesecake scene regardless of whether or not it made any sense.Later, when they find the diamonds the ladies do the most logical thing--have a long and pointless cat fight--complete with everything but jello!! Then, even more stock footage in a long and meaningless montage follows. Then, in the end, the women all turn on each other and by this point, rather inexplicably, the cop and Connors have fallen in love and the film ends with the surviving broads being arrested. Hurrah for justice! This movie made the list of 50 worst films (from Harry Medved's book "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time and How They Got That Way") and whether it should or shouldn't have made this list is debatable. I'd put it on a list of maybe 200 worst films, but either way the movie stinks. As a result, the film is best seen only by bad film lovers (like myself)--not sane or "normal" people.