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The Switchblade Sisters[Widescreen Collector's] - DVD

SKU: 3561737 | Release Date: 5/23/2000

Rating: R for Sexual Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Rape & Sexual Abuse

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Rating: R for Sexual Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Rape & Sexual Abuse
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1975
Length: 90 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

Exploitation auteur Jack Hill wrote and directed this wild, often satiric girl-gang movie, whose story is loosely (make that very, very loosely) based on Othello. The Silver Daggers are a gang of young hoods who control an inner-city high school, where they sell drugs and sex to the student body and fight anyone who gets in their way. The Daggers have a ladies' auxiliary, The Dagger Debs, who rumble just as hard as the men, but one day chief Dagger Deb Lace (Robbie Lee) meets her match in Maggie (Joanne Nail), a new kid who won't back down. When a scuffle lands Maggie and the Debs in jail for the night, Maggie comes to Lace's rescue, and Maggie becomes Lace's new right-hand woman. However, fellow Deb Patch (Monica Gayle) is jealous of Maggie's friendship with Lace, and begins spinning a web of deceit to destroy Lace's trust in the new deb. In the midst of the infighting, the Silver Daggers find their turf challenged by a rival gang who pose as a community action team, and the Debs join forces with a revolutionary political group. Kitty Bruce, Lenny Bruce's daughter, plays Doughnut, one of the Debs, and Marlene Clark plays a Mao-spouting revolutionary leader. This exploitation cult item gained a new life in 1996, when Quentin Tarantino, a big fan of director Hill, sponsored a theatrical re-release through his company Rolling Thunder Pictures. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

Commentary by director Jack Hill and Quentin Tarantino Introduction to and analysis of Jack Hill's career by Quentin Tarantino "Coffy" trailer "Foxy Brown" trailer "The Swinging Cheerleaders" trailer "The Host," Jack Hill's student film "Spider Baby" trailer, reviews, and clips "Pit Stop" select clips "The Big Doll House" trailer "The Big Bird Cage" trailer "The Sorceress" trailer 2.0 mono Widescreen (1.85:1)

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. Opening Credits
2. "What's the World Coming To, Girls?"
3. The Silver Daggers and the Dagger Debs
4. "Get Your Hands Off Me, You Fat Pig Dyke"
5. "He's President of the Silver Daggers"
6. The Word's "Hands Off"
7. "She Ain't One of Us 'Till She Pulls a Job"
8. Maggie's Initiation
9. Showdown on Campus/"What's Youth Coming To?"
10. A Surprise for Dom
11. Ambush at the Roller Rink
12. "Can You See Me Having a Kid?"
13. "You Girls Know What a Jezebel Is?"
14. "Hold It Right There, Whitey."
15. Prepping for the Revolution
16. Payback Time/"Power to the People"
17. A Woman's Work Is Never Done
18. "We're the Jezebels, Fatso."
19. End Credits

Cast

Bill Adler - Fingers
Joanne Nail - Maggie
Kate Murtagh - Mom Smackley
Janice Karman - Bunny
Marlene Clark - Muff
Don Stark - Hook
Kitty Bruce - Donut
Robbie Lee - Lace
Monica Gayle - Patch
Asher Brauner - Dominic

Crew

Cinematographer: Stephen M. Katz
Camera Operator: Stephen M. Katz
Composer (Music Score): Medusa
Songwriter: Medusa
Production Designer: Beala Neel ,B.B. Neel
Screenwriter: Jack Hill
Director: Jack Hill
Editor: Mort Tubor
Costume Designer: Jodie Lynne Tillen
Casting: Geno Havens
Production Designer: Robinson Royce
Screenwriter: John Prizer
Producer: John Prizer
Screenwriter: F.X. Maier
Executive Producer: Jeff Begun
Composer (Music Score): Les Baxter
Songwriter: Chuck Day ,Richard Person
Executive Producer: Frank Moreno
Sound/Sound Designer: Don Jones
First Assistant Director: Don Heitzer
Assistant Camera: Randall Robinson

The Switchblade Sisters: AMG Review
Donald Guarisco , AMG

Switchblade Sisters is considered to be one of Jack Hill's crowning achievements by his fans and it is easy to see why; rarely has a B-movie been so funny, smart, or slyly subversive. The key to these unexpected attributes lies in the film's style, which uses a campy pop art approach that makes the viewer vulnerable to the ambitious themes that underpin the material. Jack Hill's clever script (co-written with F.X. Maier) delivers the exploitative goods while also working in subtle elements of leftist and feminist commentary into their story's stylized landscape. Note that all the male characters are portrayed as either weak or short-sighted and the all bastions of civilized society (schools, the police, the welfare system) are painted as hopelessly corrupt. Hill also turns in some fine work from the director's chair, infusing the film with a comic book-inspired visual style and deftly weaving unexpected dramatic moments into the film's otherwise campy tone to shake the audience up. Switchblade Sisters further benefits from performances that match the film's highly stylized tone. Joanne Nail and Robbie Lee deliver colorful performances in the leads, but it's Monica Gayle who steals the show with her wild-eyed, larger-than-life turn as Patch. The end result isn't Shakespeare and is definitely too over-the-top for anyone not experienced with drive-in movies, but its delirious style and politically charged undertones make it an ideal choice for anyone interested in the high points of drive-in cinema's last golden age. ~ Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide

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