The Big Bird Cage (1972)
Director:
Jack Hill
Tagline:
« Lashed to a terrible machine that maims tender young bodies and cripples innocent young minds. »
Actors:
Blossom
Terry
Carla
Bull Jones
Mickie
Rating:
(3’434 votes)
(3’434 votes)
Quotes:
« Terry: [Django has just kidnapped Terry, and forced her into the passenger-seat of a getaway car] What do you want me for?
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« Django: I'm gonna rape you. What the hell do you think I want?
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« Terry: Oh, baloney. I don't believe it. Besides, you can't rape me. I like sex.
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« Django: [chuckling] Ho-ho, all right. Okay, you're a hostage. How do you like that?
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« Terry: [big smile] I LOVE it!
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« Terry: Don't worry about it. I'm gonna be out of here in a day or two.
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« Carla: Yeah? Who's gonna spring you? Your friend, the Prime Minister?
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« Bull Jones: You mean, she really knows the Prime Minister?
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« Carla: I don't know if you know this, but around here among us honest thieves and murderers, a political prisoner is about the lowest dirty scum you can be.
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« Bull Jones: Come on. Come on, Carla. Tell us what she had to do with the Prime Minister.
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« Carla: She was balling him.
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« Mickie: Wait a minute. She's all right, then. That makes her a whore. She's okay.
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« Carla: No, that's not the same thing, not with the Prime Minister.
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« Mickie: Look, whether balling some clapped-up dude in the backroom of a bar, or some king at the Imperial Palace, baby, it's still whoring. She's okay.
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« Carla: Unless she did it for fun. And then she's not a whore. She's political.
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« Mickie: Fun, with that fat creep?
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« Carla: How about it, pig? Did you like it or not?
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« Terry: I always like it.
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« Carla: Looking for anybody special?
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« Rocco: Prisoner Tsiang.
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« Carla: [pointing] There she is, over there.
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« Rocco: Ah, there you are. Why you looking so dirty? You got to get all cleaned up.
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« Lin Tsiang: [crying] Oh, please. Not again. Take somebody else this time.
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« Rocco: Who are you kidding, cutie pie? Come along now.
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« Terry: What's going on?
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« Carla: The warden feels like having a little company.
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« Terry: [she had noticed that prison guards Rocco and Moreno are gay] Well, it's good to know there's at least ONE man around here who's naturally inclined.
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« Carla: Don't get your hopes up. Lin Tsiang is the only one he's ever inclined with.
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« Terry: Why not? She's a good-looking dish — if you like Chop suey.
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Runtime:88 minutes
Plots:
Blossom and Django are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Terry, a social-climbing young woman, accidentally gets caught up in the activities of two revolutionaries, Blossom and Django, and finds herself in a concentration camp for women. In the center of the camp is a towering wooden machine, “The Big Bird Cage,” in which the women risk their lives processing sugar as the evil warden looks on. The prisoners are subjected to sadistic cruelty from the guards and fellow prisoners, and all attempts at escape are dealt with–permanently. Terry’s only hope for escape lies in Blossom and her revolutionary allies.
Placed in a brutal all-women prison somewhere in the impenetrable jungles of the Philippines, social-climber Terry finds herself imprisoned after a fateful encounter with tough-as-nails revolutionary Blossom and her rebel boyfriend Django. Now, trapped in the infernal labor camp of sadistic warden Zappa, Terry and the rest of the unfortunate inmates must endure daily humiliation, torture, and back-breaking work at the dangerous wooden mill known as the Big Bird Cage. Can the doomed women break their shackles and escape a fate worse than death?
