The hot death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The hot death |
| Original title | 99 Women |
| Country of production |
Spain Germany Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jess Franco |
| script |
Peter Welbeck Carlo Fadda Milo G. Cuccia Jésus Franco |
| production | Harry Alan Towers |
| music | Bruno Nicolai |
| camera | Manuel Merino |
| cut |
Bruno Mattei Hans-Karl Zeiler (German version) |
| occupation | |
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The Hot Death is a Spanish-German-Italian prison and exploitation film from 1968 by Jess Franco with Maria Schell , Mercedes McCambridge and Herbert Lom in the leading roles.
action
Off the coast of Panama there is an island with two penal colonies, one for male and one for female prisoners. The supervisor of the female prison is Thelma Diaz. The tough guard is characterized by a proven sadism. The other prison is run by a lustful superintendent who, for his pleasure, occasionally allows inmates of the women's prison to be taken. When several female prisoners are mysteriously killed, including the badly abused Natalie, Thelma is finally relieved and replaced by the liberal criminal lawyer Leonie. However, she keeps her predecessor as their assistant.
Leonie's leniency and leniency are soon used against her, and she is accused of having developed a lesbian relationship with Marie, a delicate inmate with whom she has become friends. Finally, the pressure becomes so great that Marie and her fellow prisoners Helga and Rosalie try to escape. He succeeds and the three escaped go into hiding in the adjacent jungle. One of the fugitive women soon dies of the long-term effects of injuries sustained as a result of being raped by several male prisoners in the other penal colony. The other two fugitives are soon caught again and whipped for their escape.
When a prison mutiny breaks out, Leonie is removed from office and Thelma is reinstated. The governor of the island hopes that their much harder pace will teach women mores. But he is wrong. But in the end the terrible events on the penal camp island of recent times seem to have an impact anyway, because Leonie learns that extensive investigations are pending and that criminal law reforms in favor of the battered prison inmates are in prospect.
production
The hot death was made from June 17, 1968. Filming was completed in September of the same year. The film, shot in or near Alicante and Madrid (outside shoots) and in Italy (studio recordings), had its world premiere on March 5, 1969 in San Francisco and its German premiere on March 14, 1969. In Spain it was called 99 mujeres ; a title that has mostly been translated into the respective mother tongue abroad (international distribution title: 99 women ).
The numerous hard scenes (sex and violence) meant that the film was cut heavily in some international versions.
Reviews
"Despite the appearance of such professional actors as Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Schell and Herbert Lom as well as allusions to sexuality, a disadvantaged moviegoer suffers more than anyone among the haunted inmates in" 99 Women "."
"Half-baked mixture of adventure, social problem and sex films, superficial and brutal."
"A [...] film that torments its viewers with long-windedness, annoys them with a superficial attitude to the weighty subject of the penal system and bores them with clichés of love."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The hot death. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 118/1969
Web links
- The hot death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hot death at filmportal.de