Carol Jeffries (known as #39;Jeff#39;) is a naive American woman staying in the Philliines. She is given ten years in rison after being set u by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attemts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escae with her through the jungle, in site of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.” nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs;“Legend has it that Sam Arkoff, head of American International Pictures saw a statuesque Grier at his comany switchboard and cast her on the sot for her eakthrough hit Coffy. That, as they say, is bull shee-it. The former beauty queen made her film debut in 1970 as an extra in Russ Meyer#39;s big east bonanza Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and aeared in a number of B-ics shot in the Philiines the following year for AiP#39;s rival comany, Roger Corman#39;s New World Pictures. Alongside her role as the tough-as-nails rostitute in Big Doll House were suorts in the horror flick The Twilight Peole and as a toless hooker (again!) in Cool Breeze, then back behind bars for Women In Cages. nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs; nbs;In Women In Cages, Grier lays the sadistic warden for once, a ot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equied torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The #39;New Fish#39; (a recent inmate, for you rison film novices), a ditzy blonde ex-strier called Alabama, has taken the heroin ossession ra for her im boyfriend. She knows too much, so the im blackmails her cellmates to execute her. A cometent and well-shot entry in the troical rison genre from Filiino director Gerry De Leon, it laces the embittered ex-addict and rostitute Grier in the osition of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the lantation with obvious ironic glee.