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Les loubardes

Original title: Switchblade Sisters
  • 1975
  • R
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
4.6K
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Les loubardes (1975)
The leader of an inner-city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
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The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.

  • Director
    • Jack Hill
  • Writers
    • F.X. Maier
    • Jack Hill
    • John Prizer
  • Stars
    • Robbie Lee
    • Joanne Nail
    • Monica Gayle
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    6.5/10
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    • Director
      • Jack Hill
    • Writers
      • F.X. Maier
      • Jack Hill
      • John Prizer
    • Stars
      • Robbie Lee
      • Joanne Nail
      • Monica Gayle
    • 59User reviews
    • 83Critic reviews
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    Robbie Lee
    Robbie Lee
    • Lace
    Joanne Nail
    Joanne Nail
    • Maggie
    Monica Gayle
    Monica Gayle
    • Patch
    Asher Brauner
    Asher Brauner
    • Dominic
    Chase Newhart
    • Crabs
    Marlene Clark
    Marlene Clark
    • Muff
    Kitty Bruce
    Kitty Bruce
    • Donut
    Janice Karman
    Janice Karman
    • Bunny
    Don Stark
    Don Stark
    • Hook
    Don Marino
    • Guido
    Helene Nelson
    • Cherry
    Bill Adler
    • Fingers
    Paul Lichtman
    • Mr. Clutch
    J.S. Johnson
    • Principal Weasel
    Kate Murtagh
    Kate Murtagh
    • Mom Smackley
    Bob Minor
    Bob Minor
    • Parker
    Clint Young
    • Rizzo
    Frances E. Williams
    • Haiti
    • (as Frances Williams)
    • Director
      • Jack Hill
    • Writers
      • F.X. Maier
      • Jack Hill
      • John Prizer
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    8Quinoa1984

    Now I know why this is a Rolling Thunder re-release,,,

    Switchblade Sisters, apart of the more or less dozen films in Tarantino'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's most entertaining movie (though I haven'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 Gayle as the main three ladies of the bunch all turning in cool, un-restrained performances (one thing they don't lack, aside from some sex appeal, is spunk).

    Another thing that makes the film really work is that, more often than not (which was also the case with Hill's Pam Grier pictures) is that it'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 'exploitation' 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.

    These may be larger-than-life character, but that's part of the fun in it, that it's an action fantasy where we can root for the rough, take-no-prisoners gals of action, who also aren'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 stupid as it can get at times), and even has a little style to show off amid the patently 70's times. That, in the end, it's really a lot of fun helps out during some of the more 'dramatic' parts. And what an awesome last line!
    9franco-28

    Exploitation but entertaining

    As in all thing's this was not made for everyone, it was intended to latch onto a genre that makes money, however, I think Jack Hill has done some great work with this, if one has an open mind, they just cant help but feel for the characters as the story develops, it's interesting the whole way thru, with lots of humor violence & sex involved.
    Infofreak

    Sensational Seventies She-Devils!

    Jack Hill's 'Switchblade Sisters' is a wild ride that will have you hooked from the get go! It's everything I hoped Ted V. Mikels disappointing 'The Doll Squad' was going to be - a trashy, campy slice of 1970s exploitation that manages to be self-parodic AND take its subject matter seriously simultaneously. Happily, 'Switchblade Sisters' is so good you'd think you'd dreamed it yourself.

    Robbie Lee plays Lace the Debs' leader, and fulfills all the promise she showed in Roger Corman's 'Big Bad Mama' the previous year. She's cute but deadly, and why she never became a major star is hard to fathom. Most of the other girls, particularly gang newcomer Maggie (Joanne Nail), and Lace's former second in command Patch (Monica Gayle), are also sexy and dangerous, but none show the sheer charisma of Lee's Lace, surely up there with Tura Satana, Pam Grier or Raven de la Croix as a proto-feminist icon of the drive-in era.

    'Switchblade Sister' is trash par excellence. You will both laugh at and laugh with the Dagger Debs and their rival gang, the disco-dudded Crabs, who could easily walk off this movie and straight into 'The Warriors', another surreal gang movie, directed by another Hill, Walter. Both Hill's deserve their place in psychotronic history!
    7kergillian

    Campy but fun, a great watch!!

    This film is pretty much a second-rate Russ Meyer film (in fact, it was written by a F.X. Maier...coincidence??;) The dialogue isn't as clever, nor as tongue-in-cheek, and the acting is definitely second best. but on the other hand, Quentin Tarantino (who re-released it in '97 through Rolling Thunder Pictures) was right when he said in USA Today `There's more action is Sisters than in Twister…' The film is fast-paced, full of thrills (gotta love those low-budget, campy 70s films where everyone loses their shirt eventually...) and most of all, fun! Aside from the few scenes that just seem utterly pointless, and aside from Robbie Lee's incessant whining, it's a great film to watch; full of giggles and smiles.

    As long as one doesn't take this film seriously, or compare it too closely to Faster Pussycat of Ultra-Vixens, it will be enjoyable to anyone looking for a cheezy laugh or three. And the prison scene is *priceless*.If I were to take it seriously it wouldn't rate higher than a five, but all things considered, 7/10.
    8MOscarbradley

    Perversely enjoyable

    This glorious slice of seventies exploitation is reputed to be one of Quentin Tarantino's favourite films and it's easy to see why though even Tarantino would be hard-pressed to come up with anything this mad or this subversive; it even manages to bring Maoist politics into the mix. It also manages to transcend the 'so-bad-it's-good' concept to exist in a netherworld all of its own. As you might guess from the title, this is a feminist gang-movie with the boys taking very much a back seat. Of course, 'acting' is non-existent but director Jack Hill seems to relish his casts limitations, wracking everything up to a Spinal Tap 11. Okay, it's certainly not for everyone but for those who can take it this is perversely enjoyable.

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    • Trivia
      Quentin Tarantino, a long time fan of Jack Hill's work, bought the rights to the film and re-released it in 1996 through his film company, Rolling Thunder Pictures. He held a huge premiere and a celebration at a theater in Los Angeles which the film's original cast attended. Co-star Marlene Clark remembered the event in an interview many years later and laughed about it. "My commercial agency called me and said "We have an invitation to a screening of "SWITCHBLADE SISTERS"!" Clark laughed. "[Rolling Thunder] actually sent a car to bring me to the screening! All the way over I thought, "This is a flashback. I'm having a breakdown." Nope! I got to the theater, and it was for real! All the other women from the movie were there, and there was a nice little party afterwards at a place called the Red Room. It was amazing."
    • Goofs
      Lace cuts off the necktie that the man in the elevator is wearing, leaving about six inches of it behind. However, when he later identifies the gang members to the police, his necktie is much longer.
    • Quotes

      Muff: You know, sooner or later every woman's bound to find out: the only thing a man's got below his belt is clay feet.

    • Connections
      Featured in Exploitation Classics (1985)

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    • Release date
      • November 24, 1976 (Mexico)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Las siete malditas
    • Filming locations
      • Moonlight Rollerway - 5110 San Fernando Road, Glendale, California, USA(Roller skating scenes.)
    • Production company
      • Centaur
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $320,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $51,264
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $14,532
      • Jun 16, 1996
    • Gross worldwide
      • $51,264
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 31m(91 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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