This film starts out like some euro-crime mob flick with a jealous mob-boss crushing a couple to death with an earth-mover before switching over to the standard women-in-prison mode. Post-op tranny Ajita Wilson is featured here as a bad-ass leader of some female prisoners and she goes the whole tough-gal Pam Grier route with some gun, knife and kung-fu action against a corrupt lady warden(who strangely enough has more of a manly face than Ajita does!). This came along towards the tale end of the classic women's-prison genre and is fairly generic in almost every way. You got a few scenes of lesbian frolicking and inmate torture and after it's over it's pretty forgettable. This does kinda make me want to check out more Ajita Wilson films though. AKA CAPTIVE WOMEN 8: HELL PENITENTIARY & CAPTIVE WOMEN HELL: HELL PENITENTIARY.
From what I can figure out the movie HELL BEHIND THE BARS is a different film made by the same director(Gianni Siragusa) with the same cast as this and also shot in '84 which is a little confusing.
The other movies in the chronologically confusing CAPTIVE WOMEN series(which was just a retitling done for VHS releases) are:
CAPTIVE WOMEN = THE STORY OF LINDA (1981)
CAPTIVE WOMEN 2= SS EXPERIMENT LOVE CAMP (1976)
CAPTIVE WOMEN 3= SWEET SUGAR (1972)
CAPTIVE WOMEN 4= ELSA FRAULEIN SS (1977)
CAPTIVE WOMEN 5= HELLTRAIN (1977)
CAPTIVE WOMEN 6= SAINT-TROPEZ VICE (1987)
CAPTIVE WOMEN 7= AMAZONIA: THE CATHERINE MILLS STORY (1985)
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