{"id":24044,"date":"2018-01-15T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=24044"},"modified":"2017-11-19T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T23:23:41","slug":"five-loose-women-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=24044","title":{"rendered":"Five Loose Women (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><br \/>\nNo one will mistake &#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; (the most common title for this film) for great cinema. The ultra-low budget, editing errors and continuity blunders alone guarantee that. But taken for what it is &#8211; a 1974 exploitation quickie, a drive-in nudie flick about female criminals &#8211; this movie really works. With the legendary Edward D. Wood Jr. contributing one of his finest screenplays and also acting in two different roles, the film won&#8217;t disappear. &#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; is good entertainment! <\/p>\n<p>The acting ranges from passable to good, the dialogue ranges from classic Woodian nonsense to decent, the music often works very well, and technically&#8230;well, this aspect doesn&#8217;t usually manage to impress. Director Stephen Apostolof deserves credit, certainly, for the superb pacing and for bringing out the best in actresses Tallie Cochrane, the &#8217;70&#8217;s adult superstar Rene Bond (now supposedly deceased) and the strangely overlooked but genuinely charismatic Margie Lanier.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely do these no-budget grindhouse flicks deliver like this one does, and not because of overt sex or violence; &#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; succeeds on it&#8217;s own quirky charm and likability. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not saying this is a *good* movie, but a great one for it&#8217;s genre. Despite all of this, &#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; rarely receives extended mention in Ed Wood discussions, probably because it&#8217;s such an oddity. It isn&#8217;t family friendly like, say, &#8220;Plan 9 From Outer Space&#8221;, doesn&#8217;t feature any of his most famous players from his earlier period (like Criswell in &#8220;Orgy Of The Dead&#8221;), and this film barely qualifies as softcore, much less hardcore (such as &#8220;Necromania&#8221;). You get the idea. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; is top-shelf exploitation and recommended viewing for Wood cultists, Rene Bond fans, B-cinema specialists and grindhouse followers alike.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one will mistake &#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; (the most common title for this film) for great cinema. The ultra-low budget, editing errors and continuity blunders alone guarantee that. But taken for what it is &#8211; a 1974 exploitation quickie, a drive-in nudie flick about female criminals &#8211; this movie really works. With the legendary Edward D&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",736,1130,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters-195x300.jpg",195,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",736,1130,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters-667x1024.jpg",667,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",736,1130,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",736,1130,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",736,1130,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",736,1130,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22816148adf075259839e4632fc1c973-girl-gang-film-posters.jpg",195,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"No one will mistake &#8220;Fugitive Girls&#8221; (the most common title for this film) for great cinema. 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