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Pam Grier in person!

Grier plays Blossom, the rough-and-ready girlfriend of a radical guerrilla leader, who infiltrates a women’s prison and teams with another new inmate to stage an explosive breakout.

YEAR
1972
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
88 minutes
FORMAT
35mm
START DATE
March 15, 2013

Pam Grier in person!

A buxom bad girl named Blossom (Grier) is the rough-and-ready girlfriend of a radical guerrilla leader named Django. But when Django’s mercenary friends itch for some female companionship, they devise a plan to liberate the inmates of a local women’s prison. With the help of another new inmate, Blossom and Django go up against a tyrannical warden to stage an explosive breakout. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

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