Switchblade Sisters

Buy This Item Switchblade Sisters by Walt Disney Video  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-25-2008     Jack Hill's 1975 drive-in opus, <I>Switchblade Sisters</I>, has all the requisite cheese and then some: girl fights, gun duels, sex-starved reform school guards, flashes of nudity, and even African-American-Maoist-revolutionary-butt-kicking chicks who don't take nonsense from anyone. The story is a prime example of how the influence of great filmmakers can be reprocessed into pure exploitation: Maggie (Joanne Nail), a smart, new member of a distaff gang, presents a threat to the group's established leader (Robbie Lee). The intricacies of their subsequent relationship--love, betrayal, and a battle for control--has numerous echoes of the films of Nicholas Ray and Howard Hawks, and Hill plays it all with a seriousness that underscores the heart within this trash classic. No wonder Quentin Tarantino became this film's latter-day benefactor, promoting its 1998 theatrical re-release under the auspices of his revival imprint, Rolling Thunder Pictures. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews Falls short on the Raunch "B" movie fans have grown to love. I purchased this movie, because it was not at my local video store, I wish it had been. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen.

Switchblade Sisters Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 11-25-2008.

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