Caged Heat (1974) 
Jonathan 'Silence of the Lambs' Demme's directorial debut takes the form of an attitude fueled women in prison flick chock full of the usual staples including plenty of tits and bush, in-fighting, and escape attempts. Whilst a fair way away from some of the sleazier and seedier films which inhabit this sub-genre of cinema, it still has enough action and mild debauchery to keep its audience entertained. Russ Meyer stalwart Erica Gavin and the iconic Barbara Steele provide some of the film's key talent, the latter of whom plays the prison's sadistic, wheelchair bound warden. Whilst more Exploitation-lite, you can sense that the film struggles to break these bonds throughout under Demme's writing and direction with attempts to flesh out the characters and portray them as more than random inmates for the sole purpose of on-screen titillation. The low budget skews this endeavour slightly, however the fairly lean script and the mixture of comedy, action and erotica makes for an entertaining use of 80 minutes.
7/10