646f9e108c The &quot;Dagger Debs&quot; are a gang of snarling girls, and Maggie is their newest member. Lace, the ever tooth-gritting leader, befriends her but soon has doubts –it seems Lace&#39;s man, Dominic, head of the &quot;Silver Daggers&quot; fancies the new recruit. Lace struggles to keep control of the Debs, and a handle on Nick,they face off against the rival gang of pushers lead by Crabs. The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighbourhood. My favorite part is how Lace (Robbie Lee) clenches her teethshe talks. It shows how mean and tough she is! Even though she looks like she&#39;s 12.<br/><br/>This movie has naked ladies, ladies fighting each other, ladies fighting men, nasty comments to authority – what more do you need?<br/><br/>If it were science fiction, it&#39;d be perfect for MST3K! Switchblade Sisters, apart of the more or less dozen films in Tarantino&#39;s Rolling Thunder pictures collection (re-released exploitation flicks and foreign films), was worth the watch for a past midnight time of viewing. It might even be Jack Hill&#39;s most entertaining movie (though I haven&#39;t seen Coffy in a while). There are really a few things that he gets really right, amid the obvious camp that comes with a movie like this. He uses some tough, interesting B-actresses for the parts of the Debs-turned-Jezebelles, with Robbie Lee and Joanne Nail and Monica Gaylethe main three ladies of the bunch all turning in cool, un-restrained performances (one thing they don&#39;t lack, aside from some sex appeal, is spunk).<br/><br/>Another thing that makes the film really work is that, more often than not (which was also the case with Hill&#39;s Pam Grier pictures) is that it&#39;s very, very funny. Sometimes it was just by some unexpected stuff (the guy in the elevator early in the film, or stuff during the climactic battle in the streets), or just by some of the creative dialog. But really what helped make the film work for me was that it had a great marriage of &#39;exploitation&#39; ideals (just look at the prison scenes) with spots of realism, or at least things that seem realistic in the Roger Corman school of writing.<br/><br/>These may be larger-than-life character, but that&#39;s part of the fun in it, that it&#39;s an action fantasy where we can root for the rough, take-no-prisoners gals of action, who also aren&#39;t completely in-human. Hill, who has mentioned in interviews how part of his film-making comes from being a musician, knows the rhythms of scenes and dialog (as stupidit can get at times), and even has a little style to show off amid the patently 70&#39;s times. That, in the end, it&#39;s really a lot of fun helps out during some of the more &#39;dramatic&#39; parts. And what an awesome last line!
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