Leofwine_draca POLICE WOMEN is a straightforward early '70s action flick about an undercover cop who infiltrates an all-female gang in order to bring some perps to justice. It has a low rent, TV movie-style look and feel to it, but a string of rather basic martial arts fights keeps the running time bubbling along, allowing this to be mildly enjoyable for the undemanding viewer.Sondra Currie essays the role of the tough, ass-kicking female lead, and she does a fine job with it. She brings some of the sass and verve of Pam Grier to the part, and she's one of the best things about the movie. Elsewhere, watch out for William Smith's amusing cameo as a karate instructor. Director Lee Frost worked his way through an exploitation career incorporating such titles as HOUSE ON BARE MOUNTAIN, THE DEFILERS, LOVE CAMP 7, and THE THING WITH TWO HEADS. What a resume!

Red-Barracuda Policewomen is an action movie directed by Lee Frost, who made several exploitation flicks including the pleasingly ridiculous The Thing with Two Heads (1972) about a white racist who has his head transplanted onto the body of a black guy! This one is certainly less psychotronic than that effort but is better value overall in my view. Its title makes no sense at all of course, as there is only really one policewoman in the film, seemingly it was going to be titled 'Policewoman' until a TV movie of that name was aired just before its release so the producers just pluralized the title of this one. Whatever the case, it hardly matters. It's about a female police officer who goes undercover to infiltrate an all-female gang of criminals.I really like films full of women so this one was right up my alley. The guys that appear are very peripheral and sometimes even get beat up by the chicks, which is never a bad thing. But seeing as it's a 70's action flick, while it has some material satirising male chauvinism, the female empowerment stuff is offset by a sprinkling of nudity throughout, so everyone's a winner basically. The lead actress is Sondra Currie who makes for a great heroine. She, and the other women, get involved in much kung fu fighting and it's consistently entertaining stuff. The film opens with a prison break and then moves onto its gangster plot-line but it is in essence a female-led action flick which was clearly aimed at the unpretentious low budget drive-in crowd. I personally found quite a lot to like about this one and consider it something of a success.

Scarecrow-88 Sondra Currie has quite a role as the titular lead in this cop adventure, directed by Lee Frost, as she's sexy, with mad karate skills, and gets to kick a lot of male ass. She takes out a number of female criminals attempting to flee from the prison, losing only two who were able to free themselves after an exciting, daring escape. She joins a detective squad whose goal is to upend a successful drug and gold smuggling operation, masterminded by a cantankerous old broad named Maude(Elizabeth Stuart). Maude uses female criminals to carry out her orders, setting up rendezvous checkpoints with those she partners with in her smuggling operation and it will be up to Lacy Bond(Currie)and Lt. Frank Mitchell(Tony Young)to bring her down. Phil Hoover is Maude's muscle and lover, Doc, always with his shirt off and lifting weights to maintain his physique. Another ally emerges when Lacy goes undercover, infiltrating Maude's group, hoping to alert the authorities of where the last gold shipment will come ashore. Frost, God love him, fills the screen with lovely women, in and out of bikinis. There's more eye candy than we could ever want or desire. Currie especially is a tasty dish, and, as expected, beds Mitchell when the two form a bond as they go away from the city near a resort to stake out a possible gold pickup by some of Maude's girls. William Smith has a humorous cameo as a karate instructor who pushes Lacy's buttons, winding up with a cut lip and broken tooth in the process! Women dominate this flick as the men often are beat to a bloody pulp, such as when Mitchell attempts to silence Maude's girls, who are trying to ram his and Lacy's smaller boat. You get some lively cat fights, but Currie is allowed to take apart both men and women(..including one great fight scene where she whips Doc with ease while inside a moving army truck). What was a bit disappointing to me was that we don't see Lacy on the street which is why I rented it to begin with..the cover kind of led me to believe that she would be joining forces with a detective team to take out a serious drug operation, and the accompanying elements of gritty characters and street action would figure prominently in the plot. Instead, this flick is concerned more about the toned, fit bodies of all the attractive cast, and little about the story itself..I prefer to have a steady supply of both. I did hope to see more of Lacy in uniform with a gun, chasing the bad guys down street corners, but Lee Frost was more interested in beach, babes, and bikinis..not bullets and blood. I simply expected more from this, truth be told. It never quite takes off despite a premise with promise. You don't really see films headlining beautiful, tough females in cop or detective roles, and here's a bona fide chance I think was wasted.

mike robson Policewoman Lacy Bond,played by small dynamic redhead Sondra Currie,is a "supercop" assigned to take down a band of female gangsters who are up to all sorts of fiendish criminal activities.She uses(pretty basic)martial arts skills against them,and is later joined by undercover agent Pam Harris,played by Jeanie Bell,to help her take down the bad girl mob.The guys are generally pretty unimportant in this movie.Tony Young,as Lacy's boss and partner is reduced to a hapless sidekick,muttering his disapproval when he thinks she is putting herself in danger(and at one point having to be rescued by our heroine from some murderous babes who are beating him to death!).Only Phil Hoover,playing a funny and pretty vicious villain,and the great William Smith,sending himself up in a cameo as a patronizing police fight instructor,really register among the male cast.This cheap but entertaining movie contains all the elements expected from Lee Frost's "drive-in" fare,some sex and nudity,scantily clad girls,and lots of action.Fans of female fighting in movies should like the scenes where Lacy and Pam use judo and karate battling the female villains-such as tough con Janette (Laurie Rose)and Caroline (Dorrie Thomson) and her gang.