''Chained Girls'' is a 1965 American film directed by Joseph P. Mawra. It is an example of the exploitation film.
This "exposé" claims to reveal the shocking truth about
lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
ism in today's society with supposed hidden camera footage.
This was a way of getting around censorship, to include what was by the standards of the time fairly explicit material. It includes some bizarre scenes, including what purports to be a lesbian initiation, with a woman gang-raped by a group of "
dykes" led by a "bull dyke", and two "dykes" fighting each other (apparently to the death) over the same "femme" lesbian. Some have detected an irony that the background music is by
Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular ...
, who was gay.
It was produced by
George Weiss (best known for ''
Glen or Glenda''), and written directed by Joseph P. Mawra.
It has been released on DVD along with ''Daughters of Lesbos''.
See also
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List of American films of 1965
References
External links
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review
1965 films
American sexploitation films
American black-and-white films
Lesbian-related films
1965 LGBTQ-related films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
American LGBTQ-related films
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