Raped behind bars
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Raped behind bars |
| Original title | Jackson County Jail |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Miller |
| script | Donald Stewart |
| production | Jeff Begun |
| music | L. Loren Newkirk |
| camera | Bruce Logan |
| cut | Caroline Biggerstaff |
| occupation | |
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Raped behind bars (Alternative title: Trapped in Jackson County ; Original title: Jackson County Jail ) is an American drama from 1976 . Directed by Michael Miller , the screenplay was written by Donald Stewart . The film is assigned to the exploitation film category .
action
Dinah Hunter picks up two hitchhikers in a town in California who rob her and steal her car. Since her identity cannot be determined, she is arrested. While in custody, she is raped by a police officer. Then Hunter kills the man with a chair.
Blake, who has several criminal records and faces life imprisonment, escapes with Hunter. They take the car of the killed policeman, which is recognized by the local sheriff on the way. The policeman chases the refugees until he rams another vehicle.
Hunter and Blake travel to New York City ; further acts of violence occur along the way. In the end, Hunter is arrested while Blake escapes the police on foot. He is shot down; Hunter sees his body lying on the street from the police car.
Reviews
Film-Dienst wrote that raped behind bars was a “lurid detective film with convincing design of the main roles”. In places it seems “too constructed”, but is “very excitingly staged”. The film illustrates “the gradual increase in violence in an increasingly inhuman and corrupt society”.
Cinema magazine wrote that the film was an "exciting thriller with unsettling logic". He shows "an escalation of violence that is shocking because of its naturalness and inevitability".
backgrounds
The film was released in US theaters in April 1976. It is one of the "drive-in" films that were falsely presented as real stories in advertisements (such as The Legend of Boggy Creek from 1972, Walking Tall from 1973, Texas Blood Court 1974, Macon County Line 1975).
Quentin Tarantino selected it in 1996 as one of the films to be shown at the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest .
Web links
- Raped behind bars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rape behind bars in rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review in TV Guide
- ^ Rape behind bars in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed July 30, 2008
- ^ Cinema , accessed July 30, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Jackson County Jail , accessed July 30, 2008
- Jump up ↑ This and That for Jackson County Jail , accessed July 30, 2008