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. Smith, G. (1996). "John Sayles: 'I don't want to blow anything by people' ". Film Comment. Vol.32, no.3. p.56. ProQuest 210261893. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Tuchman, M. (July 28, 1974). "A new dimension for the girl gang genre". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 157528447. When two trouble-making female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries. a b c d e f g h i j k Hodgson, Peter S.; Davidson, Terence M. (1996). "Biology and treatment of the mamba snakebite". Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. 7 (2): 133–145. doi: 10.1580/1080-6032(1996)007[0133:BATOTM]2.3.CO;2. PMID 11990107.

a b Howard, Josiah. Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. Godalming, Surrey, England: FAB, 2008. Print. Wiggins, Clara (28 June 2017). "Meet the man who stops Kruger's lions from wandering the streets of South Africa". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019 . Retrieved 10 February 2019. When they are both scheduled to be transported to a new prison, they are chained together to prevent any escape attempts. However, the transfer is not a smooth one, and they end up being kidnapped by a group of rebels who are fighting against the government. The rebels are led by a man named Ernesto, played by Sid Haig. The movie chronicles the pair's struggle to escape the army, led by Captain Cruz ( Eddie Garcia) who enlists the help of the cowboy gang led by Ruben ( Sid Haig). The pair also has competing goals: Lee to recover the money that she extorted from her former pimp, Vic Cheng ( Vic Díaz), and escape by boat, and Karen to meet her gun connections on time so that they do not turn on her rebel friends.The lead actresses also reprised roles they already knew well. Pam Grier, who plays Lee Daniels, had done several tropical prison films, including The Big Doll House (1971), its non-sequel follow-up The Big Bird Cage (1972), and Women in Cages (1971). [9] [10] Sánchez, Andrés (2017). "Expanding the neutralization scope of the EchiTAb-plus-ICP antivenom to include venoms of elapids from Southern Africa". Toxicon. 125: 59–64. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2016.11.259. PMID 27890775. S2CID 24231215. a b c Lamont, John (1992). "The John Ashley Interview Part 2". Trash Compactor (Volume 2 No. 6ed.). p.6. Guggisberg, C.A.W. (1972). Crocodiles: Their Natural History, Folklore, and Conservation . David & Charles. p.195. ISBN 978-0-7153-5272-4. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Marais, Johan (2004). A complete guide to the snakes of southern Africa (Newed.). Struik. pp.95–97. ISBN 978-1-86872-932-6.

a b "Student died after being bitten by snake". The Telegraph. 13 December 2011. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Loveridge, Arthur (1951). "On reptiles and amphibians for Tanganyika Territory collected by C.J. P. Ionides". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 106: 175–204 [201]. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019 . Retrieved 9 November 2017. a b Borland, Sophie; Berger, Sebastian (11 March 2008). "UK student dies after snake bite in South Africa". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Lee also wears her hair in an Afro. As a "Killer Dame" (along with Tamara Dobson, Teresa Graves, Jean Bell, et al.), "It was a goodbye to the headscarves worn by Mammy and the wavy hair of the Exotic Other, and a refreshing and political greeting to the woman with a natural hairstyle modeled, according to [film scholar Cedric Robinson], from civil rights heroines such as Angela Davis." Moreover, her very portrayal of an action heroine "represented the antithesis of the Mammy." [17]

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Günther, Albert (1864). "Report on a collection of reptiles and fishes made by Dr. Kirk in the Zambesi and Nyassa Regions". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1864: 303–314 [310]. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019 . Retrieved 10 November 2017.Davidson, Terence. "Immediate First Aid". University of California, San Diego. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018 . Retrieved 12 May 2010. The movie is screened in the John Sayles film Lone Star (1996). Sayles said "Even that [movie] is about people of different races being chained together whether they want to or not." [25] See also [ edit ] From a story by pre-fame Jonathan Demme, this is partly an homage to the 1958 classic "The Defiant Ones", which structured the same type of situation for its leading characters, played by Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Then we bring on director Eddie Romero, who was an actual Filipino director who worked primary in the Tagalog language. Well done, AIP, for not bringing in your own guy. a b Mattison, Chris (1987). Snakes of the World. Facts on File, Inc. pp. 84, 120. ISBN 978-0-8160-1082-0. Hutchinson, Mark; Williams, Ian (2018). "Key to the Snakes of South Australia" (PDF). South Australian Museum. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2019 . Retrieved 8 February 2019.