Bad Girls Go to Hell is a 1965 American sexploitation film written, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Gigi Darlene, Sam Stewart, Barnard L. Sackett, and Darlene Bennett. The film contains soft-core sexual situations and is considered one of the director's first "roughies", "a trash-cinema genre that flourished briefly in the years before court cases legalized hardcore porn, and Wishman was one of the important figures in the form."[2]
| Bad Girls Go to Hell | |
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 Promotional release poster | |
| Directed by | Doris Wishman |
| Written by | Doris Wishman (as Dawn Whitman) |
| Produced by | Doris Wishman |
| Starring | Gigi Darlene George La Rocque Sam Stewart |
| Cinematography | C. Davis Smith |
| Edited by | Ali Bendi |
| Distributed by | Juri Productions Inc. Sam Lake Enterprises |
Release date |
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Running time | 65 minutes (worldwide release) 71 minutes (US)[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editMeg is a Boston housewife, who is sexually assaulted by a custodian at her apartment building. Killing him during the attack, she flees to New York City. She is then befriended by a series of people with whom she becomes emotionally and sexually involved, all the while trying to evade a narrowing police dragnet.
The film is structured around a long dream sequence and features a surprise ending.
Cast
edit- Gigi Darlene as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green
- George La Rocque as the Husband who rapes Meg
- Sam Stewart as Ed Bains
- Gertrude Cross (as Sandee Norman) as Mrs. Thorne
- Alan Feinstein (as Alan Yorke) as Ted Kelton
- Barnard L. Sackett (as Bernard L. Sankett) as Tom
- Darlene Bennett as Tracy / Della
- Marlene Starr as the Wife who rents Meg the room (and the actress who appears on the cover)
- Harold Key as the custodian
Home media
editIn 2008, Apprehensive Films released Bad Girls Go to Hell on DVD.[3][4]
The film was included in the Blu-Ray collection "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years" [5] from AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) and Something Weird Video, released in September 2022.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
- ^ Surridge, Matthew (2021-07-21). "Bad Girls Go to Hell is Fascinating Sexploitation". Splice Today. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ "Apprehensive Films [us]". IMDb. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD". The GrindHouse. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years".
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