Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
- Directed by
- John Llewellyn Moxey
- Genre
- drama film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two college women on a road trip are wrongly sent to a prison farm in a corrupt Southern town. They struggle to survive abuse from the warden and other officials.
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What happens
Nightmare in Badham County is a 1976 American women-in-prison television drama horror thriller film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Chuck Connors, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Reed, Tina Louise, Della Reese, Lana Wood and Ralph Bellamy. Its plot follows two female college students from California who, while traveling cross-country, are remanded to a women's prison farm in a corrupt Southern town. The film was so popular in China that it was released in cinemas and Raffin became the first Western actress to make a promotional tour of the country, after which she became an unofficial ambassador helping China make deals with Hollywood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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