Terminal Island (Rothman, 1973): Barbican Cinema, 6.10pm
This film is part of the Stephanie Rothman season at the Barbican. Details here.Chicago Reader review:
A lurid exploitation subject turned into a crafty feminist allegory
(1973) by Stephanie Rothman. The setting is a tiny island where the
state of California has decided to send all prisoners convicted of
first-degree murder to fend for themselves; the more brutal elements
quickly erect a fascist dictatorship, while the women they’ve enslaved
plot an escape to join the utopian rebels hiding in the hills. It’s
difficult now to believe there was a time when such progressive politics
could be expressed in a drive-in movie, but yes, Virginia, there was an
early 70s. With Phyllis Elizabeth Davis, Don Marshall, Barbara Leigh,
Sean Kenney, and (way down in the cast) the future stars of TV’s neocon
series Magnum P.I.—Tom Selleck and Roger Mosley.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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