Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) The inner-city, prone to violence, crime, drugs, even sex. The top gang that rules the area are the Silver Daggers. With them are their female counterparts, the Dagger Debs lead by Lace (Robbie Lee). One day, they meet a loner name Maggie (Joanne Nail), who holds her own. After a night in juvenile hall, Maggie joins the ranks and gains the trust of Lace. However, Lace's friend Patch is suspicious of Maggie. As Maggie began to to know the ways of the Dagger Debs, she makes a move on Lace's boyfriend Dominic (Asher Brauner), who would not take the role of a father when he hears about Lace's pregnancy. More to it, Maggie would take in the reins of leading the Dagger Debs following a failed ambush at a roller rink. The men are ousted by Maggie, and they go form the Dagger Debs, to the Jezebels. They even join a militant gang to help boost the power of the group. When Lace re cooperates from her attack, she joins the group, only to suspect Maggie as a traitor. I like the scene where Lace beats up Maggie, and tortures her by sticking a cigarette butt in her bellybutton. Then came the showdown. Classic scene. The gang gains a new leader, while Patch is left behind. Goes to show there is no loyalty among gangs. Power shifts, and questionable leadership can destroy an organization. The Jezebels have not only ousted the men, but Lace as well, without her knowledge. They consider her a weak link in the gang. 4 out of 5 stars.

Michael_Elliott Switchblade Sisters (1975) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Trashy cult classic from Jack Hill has new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) joining up with a female gang being ran by Lace (Robbie Lee) but soon everyone's loyalty is tested when a rival gang causes trouble. If you're looking for a thought-provoking, deep and serious look at females in trouble then it's best you go check out some talky foreign film. If you want sleaze, nudity, violence, cat fights and that sort of thing then Jack Hill's film is just what you're looking for. It's easy to watch this film and realize why it has become a cult favorite over the years because there are just so many classic scenes within the genre. While the film isn't perfect and there are certainly some weak moments, there's still no question that the film contains some of the best scenes from this type of exploitation picture. One such scene happens rather early on when the girls are sentenced to a jail and they come under attack from a large woman who is the boss. What happens during the two attack scenes are just priceless and will have the viewer rolling. Another terrific scene happens towards the middle when there's a violent gun battle at a roller rink. Purely priceless this scene is. The performances aren't what we'd consider "good" but I think everyone fits their roles just fine. This is especially true of Nail and Lee. It's also fun seeing Lenny Bruce's daughter Kitty in the cast as Donut. Hill keeps the film moving at a very good pace and there's all sorts of fun to be had throughout. SWITCHBLADE SISTERS deserves its cult reputation without question.

oilmanbill SWITCHBLADE SISTERS/THE JEZEBELS- 1976.My friend, Bob, made a connection with the Extras Casting Director at New World Entertainment, in Hollywood, California. I was interviewed and assigned a role as a "cop". My wife was assigned a role as a "street person". We would each earn $20 a day, plus catered meals.Early one morning, we assembled at a defunct Tasty-Freeze Drive-in restaurant in Eagle Rock, CA. I was given a "Metropolitan Police Uniform", a "flack jacket", a helmet and a "Billy Club".My first duty was to drive a "Police Car" full of other "Officers" to the curb in front of the Drive-in. We disembarked and chased after the "Dagger Debs", who had scattered upon our arrival.I located one of the Debs behind a dumpster in the rear of the property. I grabbed her wrist and put a (gentle) Hammerlock on her arm. With my club raised to strike, I marched her towards the camera. Suddenly she snarled, "Let go, you Son-of-a Bitch". Forgetting that she was an actress, I thought I was hurting her, so I released the hold. The Director yelled, "Cut". And that scene went onto the Cutting Room floor! Then, my friend Bob was instructed to frisk another Deb for weapons. Being a very religious, family man, he kept his hands about five inches away from her body. The Director finally yelled for him to," feel her up". He blushed as he complied! My wife (in a blue dress) and two other "street persons" sat at tables in front of the Drive-in when the Debs showed up. The ladies "fled" and the scene was completed.On a subsequent evening, we assembled at a vacant pottery factory in Glendale, CA. This was the clubhouse of the Debs. Following their well-orchestrated Knife Fight, we cops burst into the building. I grabbed one of the girls by her ponytail and pulled her head against the end of a shotgun. (That was cut). Finally, I got a full-face scene as I loaded the girls into the police van. As we rehearsed, I would grab and roughly shove them into the vehicle. But, then I would gently help them down for the next practice. You may notice that my "flack vest" is worn wrong side out.It was very late when I got home, so I got ready for bed in the dark. Only in the morning, did my wife see that my arms were covered with blood (fake)! My wife & I had only observed the filming of our respective scenes, so we looked forward to the movie's release at a theater. We took our 14 year-old son to see it on screen.Holy Smokes! The language, the suggestive body actions – we were so embarrassed! But our son said it was just like Junior Hi-school!

sol ****SPOILERS**** Movie about a girl street gang "The Jezebel's" who after wiping out all the street gangs in the city with an arsenal that can hold off the Red Army collapses in the end when it's two co-gang leaders blow the whole gang organization and all it's territorial holding over cute and handsome Dominic, Asher Brauner, the head of the gang "Silver Daggers" who the Jezebel's were part off. Lace, Bobbie Lee, The "Jezebel's" gang leader and Dominic's girlfriend feels that fellow gang member Maggie, Joanne Nail, is stealing "Dom" away from her. Maggie of course is innocent of what Lace suspects her of and actually rejected Dom's advances and the only "affair" she had with him was when he attacked and raped her. Crazed with jealously Lace sets up Dom, with the help of friend and gang member Patch, Monica Gayle, by telling his rival gang leader Crabbs, Chase Newheart, that "He's" being set up to be offed by Dom and Maggie at the local skating rink that Friday night. After Dom is shot down by the Crabbs gang Lace in her crazed state of mind plans, again with Patch, to silence Crabbs in order to keep him from spilling the goods about her and what she had to do with Dom's death and may well get to the bottom of it and exposes both Lace and Patch. This happens later when "The Jezebel's" with the help of the "Ghetto Gals" wipe out the entire Crabbs gang and when Crabbs is about to give himself up Patch shoots him down before he can talk. Soon after that in the clubhouse Lace accuses Maggie in that she was the one who sold out Dom but none of the "Jezebel's" believed her. Maggie and Lace then have it out in a bloody and deadly knife fight where Lace gets slashed to death and finally the police coming to the "rescue" raiding the gang clubhouse with everyone involved being sent up the river. Awful but entertaining movie with one of the most outrageous attempted prison rape scenes in a womens prison ever put on film. With the head of the guards, Mom Smackly, Kate Murtagh, getting worked over by the girls after she tried to examine Maggie to see if she had any social diseases. The street battle at the end of the movie with the Crabbs gang was as fierce and bloody as "The Battle of Berlin" with the cops out to lunch during the entire fighting. The girls in the movie were so unconvincing that it seem impossible for them to hold on to their assault weapons after they shot them off just from the recoil. Still the fight between Maggie and Lace did come off realistic but was spoiled by the police using the knife fight and death of Lace as an excuse to barge in when they couldn't find any reason to intervene when dozens of gang members were gunned down in the previous street fighting.