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The Concrete Jungle
DVDR/APPROX. 99 MINS/1982/USA R18+
DVDR/APPROX. 99 MINS/1982/USA R18+
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Young and innocent Elizabeth has just been arrested by police at the airport, when claiming her luggage, it turns out that her crooked drug dealing
boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) decided to stash cocaine inside her skis without her knowing about it. Elizabeth begins telling the police officer that
she had no knowledge about the cocaine, and doesn’t know how it got there. The detective doesn’t believe a word Elizabeth is saying and neither
does the judge who decides to make a good example out of Elizabeth by sending her straight to the Correctional Institution for Women in
California for a maximum of 2 years, unless she narks on her drug smuggling boyfriend. Foolishly, Elizabeth doesn’t say a word and finds herself
behind bars with murders, drug addicts, prostitutes and other suspected criminals. It’s just a matter of time when she quickly begins to learn to
toughen up, or she will become someone else’s bitch and never get to leave and see her beloved lover Danny ever again. Just when she thought
everything is going well by making friends with inmate Cat (Barbara Luna) things quickly turn upside down for Elizabeth. She witness’s Cat and
her henchwomen kill another inmate by injecting her with heroin, causing an instant overdose. Elizabeth becomes frightened and scared to say a
word to anyone, cause the only person she thought she could trust is in-fact the prisons Queen Bee and Warden Fletcher’s (Jill St John) drug
pedalling dealer/killer. Cat, who has taken an eye to Elizabeth, begins to slowly approach her by offering to help her out more by doing favours,
which she quickly turns down. Cat then takes things in her own hands, because when she does a favour for someone, you will return the favour.
Cat plants a shank under her mattress and tells the warden. Poor Elizabeth has to spend a week in the hole, where a male officer likes to brutally
rape the prisoners and is able to get away with it. Meanwhile, Deputy Director Shelly Meyers (Nita Talbot) is on the warden’s ass after one an
inmate’s autopsy shows signs of heroin, and she proceeds to find out what exactly is going on behind the walls of the prison by talking to the
inmates. Meyers wants to get Elizabeth to help convict the warden and clean the prison of drugs and prostitution by pressing her for valuable
information. The warden who is a step ahead of Meyers, begins to take things up another step by ordering Cat and her henchwomen to teach
Elizabeth a lesson and keep her mouth shut, or the only way she will ever leave the prison is in a body bag. It’s time for Elizabeth to stand her
ground, and fight back or she will never see the light of day ever again.
The Concrete Jungle is directed by Tom DeSimone and is like every other women in prison film you have seen before. Sadly this film does not show
much on the female nudity, but focus more on a dramatic side of things, which to me kind of ruined the whole film. Cause face the facts, when you
buy or rent a women in prison film, we want to see lots of tits and ass shower scenes, women dominated by other hot lesbian inmates and the
warden joining in and releasing her hidden lesbian tendencies, right? Instead The Concrete Jungle felt like I was watching a television series on
the Hallmark channel that only went for little over an hour. What really got on my nerves was the scene towards the end of the movie, where the
inmates got all out of control and the prisoners and guards all got into a mud wrestling match, which in my eyes didn’t do the film any more justice.
As for the acting, it is rather cheesy to take in at times, and can get on your nerves. Soap television actress Tracy Bregman who has appeared in
Days of our Lives and later on in The Bold and Beautiful, tried to make this film shine but sadly there was no hope for this young beauty to do so.
Even Barbara Luna who has also starred in many, many television shows in the 70’s, tried to lift the film off the ground with her performance, but
again sadly her character just reminded me of a badass version of Olivia Newton John from the film Grease. Though exploitation fans, need not to
worry, because here is a good tip for you all. If you look really hard and take notice in this film you will in fact see a familiar face and now days most
loved especially by us at DVD Resurrections, the one and only actress Camille Keaton from the greatest rape and revenge film of all time I Spit on
your Grave.
The DVD I reviewed was donated to us by Super Happy Fun who snag films off the public domain list and help those hardcore film collecting fans
get to view titles which haven’t yet made there way to DVD. In other words, the films you buy from these guys are not officially released on DVD
and do not contain any DVD extras or special features. The quality and sound of The Concrete Jungle was transferred from a good VHS, but apart
from the annoying Greek subtitles, it wasn't too bad.
Though still, this film is no masterpiece and will no doubt bore the shit out of a lot of hardcore movie collecting woman in prison exploitation fans,
so I warn you this isn’t a film you want in your collections right now. If I was you, I would purchase other woman prison films classics such as
Black Mama White Mama (1972), The Big Doll House (1971) or Women in Cages (1971) that all come highly recommended by us.
boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) decided to stash cocaine inside her skis without her knowing about it. Elizabeth begins telling the police officer that
she had no knowledge about the cocaine, and doesn’t know how it got there. The detective doesn’t believe a word Elizabeth is saying and neither
does the judge who decides to make a good example out of Elizabeth by sending her straight to the Correctional Institution for Women in
California for a maximum of 2 years, unless she narks on her drug smuggling boyfriend. Foolishly, Elizabeth doesn’t say a word and finds herself
behind bars with murders, drug addicts, prostitutes and other suspected criminals. It’s just a matter of time when she quickly begins to learn to
toughen up, or she will become someone else’s bitch and never get to leave and see her beloved lover Danny ever again. Just when she thought
everything is going well by making friends with inmate Cat (Barbara Luna) things quickly turn upside down for Elizabeth. She witness’s Cat and
her henchwomen kill another inmate by injecting her with heroin, causing an instant overdose. Elizabeth becomes frightened and scared to say a
word to anyone, cause the only person she thought she could trust is in-fact the prisons Queen Bee and Warden Fletcher’s (Jill St John) drug
pedalling dealer/killer. Cat, who has taken an eye to Elizabeth, begins to slowly approach her by offering to help her out more by doing favours,
which she quickly turns down. Cat then takes things in her own hands, because when she does a favour for someone, you will return the favour.
Cat plants a shank under her mattress and tells the warden. Poor Elizabeth has to spend a week in the hole, where a male officer likes to brutally
rape the prisoners and is able to get away with it. Meanwhile, Deputy Director Shelly Meyers (Nita Talbot) is on the warden’s ass after one an
inmate’s autopsy shows signs of heroin, and she proceeds to find out what exactly is going on behind the walls of the prison by talking to the
inmates. Meyers wants to get Elizabeth to help convict the warden and clean the prison of drugs and prostitution by pressing her for valuable
information. The warden who is a step ahead of Meyers, begins to take things up another step by ordering Cat and her henchwomen to teach
Elizabeth a lesson and keep her mouth shut, or the only way she will ever leave the prison is in a body bag. It’s time for Elizabeth to stand her
ground, and fight back or she will never see the light of day ever again.
The Concrete Jungle is directed by Tom DeSimone and is like every other women in prison film you have seen before. Sadly this film does not show
much on the female nudity, but focus more on a dramatic side of things, which to me kind of ruined the whole film. Cause face the facts, when you
buy or rent a women in prison film, we want to see lots of tits and ass shower scenes, women dominated by other hot lesbian inmates and the
warden joining in and releasing her hidden lesbian tendencies, right? Instead The Concrete Jungle felt like I was watching a television series on
the Hallmark channel that only went for little over an hour. What really got on my nerves was the scene towards the end of the movie, where the
inmates got all out of control and the prisoners and guards all got into a mud wrestling match, which in my eyes didn’t do the film any more justice.
As for the acting, it is rather cheesy to take in at times, and can get on your nerves. Soap television actress Tracy Bregman who has appeared in
Days of our Lives and later on in The Bold and Beautiful, tried to make this film shine but sadly there was no hope for this young beauty to do so.
Even Barbara Luna who has also starred in many, many television shows in the 70’s, tried to lift the film off the ground with her performance, but
again sadly her character just reminded me of a badass version of Olivia Newton John from the film Grease. Though exploitation fans, need not to
worry, because here is a good tip for you all. If you look really hard and take notice in this film you will in fact see a familiar face and now days most
loved especially by us at DVD Resurrections, the one and only actress Camille Keaton from the greatest rape and revenge film of all time I Spit on
your Grave.
The DVD I reviewed was donated to us by Super Happy Fun who snag films off the public domain list and help those hardcore film collecting fans
get to view titles which haven’t yet made there way to DVD. In other words, the films you buy from these guys are not officially released on DVD
and do not contain any DVD extras or special features. The quality and sound of The Concrete Jungle was transferred from a good VHS, but apart
from the annoying Greek subtitles, it wasn't too bad.
Though still, this film is no masterpiece and will no doubt bore the shit out of a lot of hardcore movie collecting woman in prison exploitation fans,
so I warn you this isn’t a film you want in your collections right now. If I was you, I would purchase other woman prison films classics such as
Black Mama White Mama (1972), The Big Doll House (1971) or Women in Cages (1971) that all come highly recommended by us.
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