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Anne Marie (Penny Irving), a cute but naive French model, meets Mark
(Robert Tayman) at a party & immediately falls for him ... & he
for her, it seems, because after not even a week of going out with each
other, he invites her to see his mother.
Of course, Mark neglects to tell Anne Marie that at his mother's she
won't get dinner & the usual parental look-over, but his mother runs
a very private prison that punishes girls like her who didn't get punished
by the official law enough (Anne Marie was once fined 10 Pounds for public
nudity). & Mark's mother, Ms Wakehurst (Barbara Markham) is not
lenient to the small time offenders in her prison, disallowing them to
talk with each other or even leave their beds when not told otherwise,
& the punishments for offenders are quite harsh: first offense is two
weeks in solitary confinement in a rat-infested cell, second offense
results in a brutal flogging by brutal warden Walker (Sheila Keith), for
the third offence one is hanged by the neck until one's death.
But why does Ms Wakehurst do it ?
30 years ago, she was a prison gouverness (an official prison that
was), but was fired from her job after she was believed to be responsible
for a convict's suicide, & not even her lover justice Bailey (Patrick
Barr) could get her out of that one. But since running prison was always
her greatest desire, she decided to continue her vocation privately ...
& she has even kept justice Bailey, who has since fgone blind (in mroe
than one meanings) to handle the trials in a mockery of real
justice.
Seeing what's going on in this prison, anne Marie has but one thought,
escape - but is caught, & thrown into solitary. Ms Wakehurst soon
realizes Anne Marie cold be a troublemaker, & sees to it that she will
become a third time offender a bit quicker than average: she sends her son
Mark to her cell, who promises her heaven, & Anne Marie, naive enough
to forget that it is through him that she endeed up here in the first
place, believes his every word ... & when he leaves her cell-door open
when leaving, she seizes the opportunity ... & soon finds herself at
the receiving end of warden Walker's whip.
But even the brutal flogging doesn't cut Anne Marie down to size, &
soon she really manages to escape the place unnoticed & runs for miles
on end, only to break down in the arms of Jack Kind (Ivor Salter), a kind
lorry driver, who is appalled when he sees the signs of abuse on her body
& promises to take her to the next hospital. Unfortunately though, he
accidently believes that Ms Wakehurst's institution is a hospital (&
she is too passed out to correct his mistake) & leaves her there for
treatment (& we all know what that means, after all anne Marie is a
third time offender) ...
It's not until later that Jack finds Anne Marie's picture in a
newspaper (after all she is a model) & leaves a message at the
newspaper about her whereabouts ... a message that eventually gets through
to her roommate Julia (Ann Michelle), who soon travels to Ms Wakehurst's
place ... only to be fed with a few cock-&-bull stories about an error
the lorry driver might have made ... before being actually presented with
Anne Marie, already hanged by her neck until death. Immediately, Ms
Wakehurst forces her judge-friend to condemn her to death too ... but
Julia puts up a fight, which drives Ms Wakehurst, not used to her
authority beign questioned, totally bonkers, & ultimately makes her
stab her own son Mark in a fit of madness. & fortunately for Julia,
her boyfriend Tony (Ray Brooks) has since contacted the police, who puts
an end to these creepy proceedings.
Though not quite as explicit as some sources make it to be (& even
my synopsis might suggest) this is a nice piece of British sleaze, which
takes an almost Kafkaesque premise for its dirty proceedings (now that's
somehting you don't see every day). & Penny Irving slipping out of her
cloths every now & again is quite a dish to watch. Of course, not a
film for the easily offended of the political correctness mob.
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