Jailhouse Wardress (1979)
The Nazi Cult Collection is a fine boxset of Nazisploitation films from French / Spanish company Eurocine. With one duffer among the six films on offer. From the first time i watched the set i remembered one of the films was an incoherent, unwatchable mess. Last night it became apparent from the first minute that Jailhouse Wardress was the one.
It seems like the cast wish that they were in a different film and it quickly becomes clear that they are.
We all know Eurocine take liberties with the footage they film and often use scenes in different films, or the same scene from differing perspectives. However in the case of Jailhouse Wardress there isn't a film there in the first place for the odd scene to be mixed and matched from other titles. The entire film is just scenes ripped from their other jail / Nazi titles. The film has no story line and characters come and go every so often. Hell even Jess Franco himself has a love scene in it for no apparent reason other than his missus in real life, Lina Romay, is dreaming about it from her cell.
It's an incomprehensible mish-mash of scenes from other Eurocine films such as Elsa Fraulein SS and Special Train For Hitler but mainly it's footage from Franco's Barbed Wire Dolls reused and clumsily edited. Lina Romay is escorted around a prison courtyard a couple of times and Paul Muller wanders in and out of shot occasionally. The rest of the film is mainly idle chatter with nude inserts thrown in. I'm not actually sure if there is any footage specifically shot for this film or not. It doesn't appear so.
The worst thing about the film as well as its total lack of coherency is how the scenes are edited together. Its not just scenes which don't follow on from one another, no, in the case of Jailhouse Wardress conversations between characters are from differing films, you can spot this a mile away due to the different film stocks and even more obviously as characters are in different rooms from one another - you'll notice walls are decorated differently during 'scenes'.
Having said that i'd knowingly re-watch this again rather than modern shite like The Gallows.
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