Jackson County Jail
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Movie Reviews of Jackson County Jail
Movie Review: Yvette Is A Dish !!
Summary: 4 Stars
O.K., so this movie is a typical Roger Corman production with the usual Roger Corman production values. That makes it, of course, a really worthwhile film. Corman may have made some weirdos, but all of his movies are fun. Tommy Lee Jones was perfectly cast in Jackson County Jail. I think perhaps only Steve Railsback could have matched the performance. Yvette? This is as cruise-speed sexy as she has ever been. And, her performance is Grade A. This movie has a large cult following for various reasons. And, even though it's not the best of it's genre, it is a film worth the price. Good ole' Roger Corman. Good ole' Yvette!! Good ole' Tommy Lee!! They click.Movie Review: Lackluster 1970's Flick
Summary: 3 Stars
Jackson County Jail is just a slapdash effort that takes what could have been a thrilling movie and makes it into just so much mush. It begins in Los Angeles when liberated career woman Dinah Hunter (Yvette Mimieux) quits her job as a producer of commercials after a client pans one of her latest creations. She then goes home and catches her husband with a local beauty.
Once done informing her husband that she is fed up with his infidelity, she then leaves Los Angeles for a new job in New York, intending to drive herself there. She does so without doing any packing or any of the other things that you would expect someone who's planning on such a long drive to do. One aspect of long distance driving that she is quite clearly incapable of doing is navigation and map reading. Driving from L.A. to N.Y. clearly means going northwards, but she actually drives into the Deep South. On her trip, she picks up a pair of hitchhiking punks who clearly have trouble written all over them. Once she makes it clear to them that she intends on driving north, they hijack the car and rob her.
After the hijack, Dinah enlists the aid of a restaurant owner who calls the sheriff's office on her behalf. However, the restauranteur is also a pervert who attempts to rape her. Whilst defending herself, a deputy sheriff shows up and arrests her instead. Once at the jail, she is then raped by a different deputy. She is able to overcome her attacker, kill him and then frees another inmate Tommy Lee Jones) and they escape together. They steal a car and on the way to the criminal's hideout, they get into a goofy chase with the now drunken sheriff. Dinah and the criminal evade the sheriff and wind up at a house owned by a friend of the criminal. However, the law catches up with them and proceeds to place the house under siege. Both Dinah and the criminal escape from the house.
This is the point where the movie really gets bad. Dinah gets into a discussion of right and wrong with her hardened criminal buddy and trys to convince him that thee is good in humanity. Her accomplice responds only by saying that she must have lived a sheltered life. Eventually, Dinah is severely injured by gunshots and caught. Her buddy gets himself gunned down right in the middle of a bicentennial parade which continues on despite the fact that police are engaged in a running gunfight with a hardened criminal whose six-shooter never runs out of bullets and several paraders and onlookers get downed by stray bullets. Even by the standards of the film's producer, Roger Corman, this is pretty unreal.
Jackson County Jail is a movie that was made with real acting talent, too bad the same could not be said of the script.
Movie Review: Good film, terrible DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
I guess you don't have to rave about the superior direction and acting anymore, as this is one of the 70's films which deserves its cult reputation. I only wish the production of this DVD had been adequate - the image is good, but the sound is TERRIBLE. Especially the opening scene in the monitoring room and the scene with Yvette Mimieux meeting the teenage hitchhikers are hardly audible. My dupe of the old Warner rental tape sounds better. Shame on you, guys!