The Big Doll House

The Big Doll House (1971) — Jack Hill's women-in-prison picture for Roger Corman — is available to watch online on iFILM, shot on location in the Philippines on a fraction of what a studio would have spent.

Five prisoners in a brutal Filipino jail, tormented by a sadistic warden and a complicit doctor, put together an escape plan with two black-market traders who supply the compound. Judith Brown leads the cast; Pam Grier, early in her career, plays one of the inmates. The film is exactly what its tagline promises and never pretends otherwise — which is precisely why it became the template a dozen imitators spent the next decade trying to copy. Stream The Big Doll House online on iFILM.