Such a frustrating disappointment

Captivating movie !

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This movie is real snooze - it could not hold my interest at all. The first 30 minutes I tried to get into it and it did not happen. So I hit the fast forward button and went past about 10-15 minutes of the film then stopped again to watch for a bit. This movie is BORING and awful! I was hoping for a couple of laughs but I never even got that out of it.Oh why did she cut the ropes from his tied wrists? Why did he have to jump in the water to save her? I wanted the one girl to be eaten by the alligator - that would have added some excitement! But no he wrestled the fake alligator and won... that was the best scene in this awful film and that didn't turn out like I wanted it to.Watch this film only to satisfy your curiosity about how awful it really is. I love B-movies but this one is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.1/10

For every good movie Roger Corman put out, he did three stinkers in return. This is one of the stinkers. The plot here is absurd but admittedly no less absurd than many successful mainstream movies. It's about an undercover policewoman (Carole Mathews) who helps three female convicts escape from prison, hoping they will lead her to some stolen diamonds. Two of the three convicts are tough broads Beverly Garland and Marie Windsor. The other is blonde cutie Jil Jarmyn. In the first of many eye-rolling moments of stupidity in the movie, this new prisoner (the undercover cop) shows up at the prison and immediately starts trying to talk these girls into breaking out. None of them are suspicious! After the easiest prison break ever, the four women head into the swamp. Soon they meet up with Mannix himself Mike Connors and his clichéd Southern belle girlfriend. She does everything but say "fiddle-dee-dee." The cons have little trouble slapping Mannix around, which is amusing. After a harrowing fight to the death with a rubber alligator, the ladies realize just what a virile hunk of man Mannix is and just have to have him. It's all pretty dumb and easy to mock. There are cat fights and short shorts but little to titillate most exploitation fans. The worst part is that the movie has the look of a public health film. Very cheap. It was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and that's a thing. Obviously it holds some unintentional comic value. The problem is that maybe 10-15% of the movie is good for some laughs but the rest is boring.

Mystery Science Theater, oh how I miss thee. The bane of this film's existence to wipe away one's sense of glee. OK, forget the typical rhyme and get one with the review.Never being familiar with Roger Corman's films, this is the first time I seen one of them and that is "Swamp Women". A cheesy name for a cheesy film in it's own right; I actually thought it was Swamp Thing's female counterpart but upon further viewing I discovered that that was not the case as "Swamp Women" has noting to do at all with the titular hero of the bayou of middle America(though I don't now precisely where Swamp Thing dwells).What could've made this film more compelling, despite being on a very low budget, is a more better story, better production values and better characters, but since this is a 1950's release that's not saying much when there were more quality films of the decades that spawned them. Be that as it may, ultimately the film is a waste of time and you're better off watching To Kill A Mockingbird or other better made films of the time. Nothing in this film is even remotely engaging and it should stay in the bowels of cinematography forever.

Reportedly Roger Corman's first directorial effort, Swamp Women (oddly renamed Swamp Diamonds on the MSTK version) is great fun even without the interjected comments of the MSTK gang. Although the plot leaves much to be desired, the interplay of "Touch" Connors (later Mike of Mannix), Queen of the B's Marie Windsor and the always wonderful Beverly Garland, as the baddest of the bad girls,is worth the price of admission. When the girls cut their jeans down to short-shorts after a night of drinking (Why would they do that in a swamp with rattlers and crocs?)things really get good. The MSTK crew get a lot of laugh mileage out of Connors first name and all the down and dirty girl fighting, which is surprisingly well staged. If you get the MSTK version, don't miss the featured short "What To Do on a Date." It's a hoot!