Another Pam Grier prison girl sexplotation film made in the Philippines. Pam goes to prison and arrives with a bunch of other women in time to take a shower. While the girl's frolic, the warden (Laurie Burton) spies on them and pleasures herself. In spite of having a regular guard as a girlfriend, the warden wants Pam Grier. Pam rejects her advances, but Margaret Markov does not. This causes friction between the girls who later give us a cat fight with up skirts.Through a series of circumstances the 2 girls manage to escape except they are chained to each other (film also released under the title "Chained Women"). Blondie wants to get guns to the revolutionaries while Pam has some cash stashed and wants off the island. Good old fashion 70's drive-in standard.Ample above the waist nudity, no silicon, near rape.

How do you go from an opening 20 minutes that holds such naughty promise (a women's prison full of bewbs and illicit lesbian fantasy) to a remaining 70 minutes that almost does away with that entirely and leaves us with a bunch of clothed men? Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, two bad "B"s on the run almost play second fiddle to a supporting cast of revolutionaries, bad cops and gangsters. How do you squander such jiggly potential? Maybe if you develop those supporting characters who gobble up so much of the screen time, this wouldn't be an issue. Play up the humor a bit, more ladies with less clothes, you get what I'm saying. This is not difficult. It's always worth it to see a mad as hell Pam Grier (you don't mess with her), but this movie needed a lot more of that. It needed a lot more of the titillation it seems to promise. It's a slog even at 90 minutes. Everything about this movie promises a lot more ass-kicking than it delivers.This is awful. 3/10

The '70s gave us probably the best exploitation movies ever. Eddie Romero's "Black Mama, White Mama" combines two of the genres - women in prison and blaxploitation - as Pam Grier's hooker and Margaret Markov's revolutionary escape a jail in an unidentified country (which is obviously the Philippines). They fight off the authorities, Grier's character's pimp, and a cowboy. It looks like one of those movies that they had a lot of fun filming; there's even a scene that appears to have inspired the famous scene in "Porky's".What I really noticed is that this movie links the most dissimilar kinds of movies. Its plot is very similar to "The Defiant Ones" (Stanley Kramer's movie about a black man and a white man chained together who escape jail and have to cooperate). But director Romero's movies inspired a lot of grindhouse cinema. In fact, Quentin Tarantino (who of course cast Pam Grier in "Jackie Brown") called "BMWM" co-star Vic Díaz "the Filipino Peter Lorre".Yes, this movie creates some of the most unusual connections. And it's chock full of fun stuff. You're sure to love it.

From story authors Jonathan Demme & Joe Viola, screenwriter H.R. Christian, and the prolific Eddie Romero, comes this diverting Filipino chase movie that puts an exploitative spin on the premise of "The Defiant Ones".It starts out as your average women in prison flick, with blonde revolutionary Karen Brent (Margaret Markov) and black prostitute Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) meeting. While escorted away from the prison, they are shackled together. They soon make their break for freedom, often arguing over methodology and directions but coming to rely on each other and even care for each other.Director Romero makes this a pretty lively affair, and it's worth noting that things take on a rather tongue in cheek tone at times. The ample humour helps to make this quite easy to watch, with Pams' frequent co-star Sid Haig given a meaty role which he plays with relish: a flamboyant, horny, loud talking dude in a cowboy costume. Romeros' pacing is effective, and the action scenes are fairly intense; there are some brief bursts of bloody violence. The location shooting is excellent, and the supporting cast features some familiar faces from Filipino exploitation cinema: Eddie Garcia, Alfonso Carvajal, Bruno Punzalan, and the always welcome Vic Diaz, who's a hoot as an oily crime lord. Sexy Lynn Borden has the role of a lustful prison guard. Stars Markov and Grier look fantastic and get some great chemistry going.The true highlight of the movie definitely has to be the sequence where Markov and Grier masquerade as nuns; it provides the biggest laughs. But it must be said that Romero knows how to get down to business, delivering delectable nudity in the obligatory shower scene that occurs no more than four minutes into the movie.All in all, this is solid entertainment that should please fans of the A.I.P. drive-in flicks of the 1970s.Seven out of 10.