Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I can't believe all the reviews that are so positive about this terrible movie. The only interesting aspect is that it stars a young Tom Selleck. There's gratuitous nudity, unconvincing gore and 'action' sequences which are laughable. The story is stale with a plot that has been reworked many times. There's nothing new or worthwhile to recommend this movie. There's no tension to be found in the story. It has a very unrealistic premise and ending. There's also a real misogynistic theme in this movie as the women are nothing more than 'ass' for the men to share. And while the men are all scruffy and dirty, the women are perfectly coiffed with their breasts spilling out of their ill-fitting clothes. I guess if you're a 12-year-old boy, you might get your jollies from this insipid movie but anyone with an IQ over 100 will be bored by this POS.

January 2014:Since watching the fascinating 1975 film Gemini Affair,I decided to take a look at lead star Marta Kristen's IMDb page,which listed a trio of movies that she made.After being unable to track down Kristen's surrealist title Once,I took a look at the page for the other flick in the trio,and I was happy to discover that it was a Women In Prison (WIP) film,co-starring Kristen.Taking a look around online,I was disappointed to find that the only version out in the UK was a heavily cut edition.September 2014:Shortly after tracking down an uncut version of the Adult Jaws spoof Gums,I decided to take a look at what other movies the DVD selling had for sale,and I was delighted to spot an uncut edition of Terminal Island,which led to me finally setting foot on the island.The plot:After the US Supreme Court declares that the death penalty is unlawful,California decides that it will counter this law by making the island of San Bruno a dumping ground for first degree murderers,who will be kept on the island for the rest of their lives,and will have to fight to the death for their survival.Found guilty of murder,Joy is sent to join the other residences of the island.Ignoring advice to stay on the shore of the island,Joy heads to the heart of the island,where she is captured,and soon becomes a prison.Originally expecting to find the island to be a battle royal,Joy is instead surprised to find,that with the exception of a few outcasts,that the island is run by 2 men called Bobby & Monk,who push all of the more conscious-heavy guys around,and keep the women as workers and sex slaves. As she gets pushed around and "eased" in by Bobby & Monk,Joy begins talking to her fellow prisoners about staging a rebellion on the island.View on the film:Showing the boys how things are done,co-writer/ (along with James Barnett and Charles S. Swartz) director Stephanie Rothman ("Gasp"-a women making a "genre" movie!) gives the movie an extremely gritty appearance,with Rothman and cinematographer Daniel Lacambre using the island location to give the title a lush, rugged atmosphere. Displaying a sense of equal opportunity,Rothman hits the action scenes with a brutal force,thanks to Rotherman putting the guys & the girls knee- deep in bare knuckle fights,and deadly shootings which scatter across the screen.Keeping away from making the action scenes unconnected to the rest of the movie,Rothman shows a subtle progression in the fighting style of the islanders,as Joy and her gang of rebels develop a bond in taking on Monk & Bobby.Taking place almost entirely in the jungle,the writers include a sly allegorical element to the Vietnam war in the screenplay,with the rebels weapons all involving elements of the jungle,whilst Monk and Bobby go up against them with brand new machine guns.Making sure that the allegorical never engulfs the title,the writers smartly decide to keep the message sly,which allows for the flick to end on a positive,cheerful note about creating bonds in a new society.Despite the film having a positive message,the writers make sure that the road to the message is not an easy,with everyone from the leaders to the slaves being beaten to a pulp,with the writers showing a tremendous glee in wiping out major characters with a burst of gunfire.Stepping on the island with a goal to hit anyone that gets in her way, Phyllis Davis gives a terrific,brash performance as Joy,with Davis showing Joy's edges to soften,as she gets into the swing of team work,whilst a pretty Marta Kristen gives a fun,care-free performance as Lee Phillips,and the gorgeous Barbara Leigh (who also appears naked) displays a fragile vulnerability as Bunny.Joining the girls, Roger E. Mosley gives a stern performance as Monk,whilst Sean Kenney cast a snarl across the screen as boo- hiss baddie Bobby,as all of them try to survive on the terminal island.

TITLE: TERMINAL ISLAND opened in theaters on 6/1/1973 Runtime: 88 MinutesSTARRING: Phyllis Davis as Joy, Barbara Leigh as Bunny, Ena Hartman as Carmen, Marta Kristen as Lee, Don Marshall as AJ, Tom Selleck as Dr. Milford and Sean Kenney as Bobby. SUMMARY: The movie opens with a TV station going back three ago when Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno Island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. Carmen is sentences to Terminal Island for murder. When she gets there, Dr Milford greets her. Carmen Spends the night on the beach near a warm fire. The next morning Carmen starts to head inland when she comes across the camp. When Carmen reaches, camp Bobby tells Monk to break her in. After Carmen is broken in the hard way she is assign a cabin. The next day Carmen and another woman inmate are seen pulling a plow. Joy goes to get a drink and it turns into a fight between two male inmates. The tyrannical Bobby, who rules with an iron hand and the women are used as sex slaves, controls the main camp of convicts. The girls are force to help build a wall. That evening Joy is trying to clean up Carmen hands when Monk comes into their cabin and tells them all that there working the night shift. The next day the men are standing line getting ready to be served by the women food. Bunny who's Bobby personal slave gets Bobby and Monk food. One of the other male inmates gets into a confrontation with another and a brawl inc-uses until one of them is killed with a knife, which means there is one less mouth to feed. His body is thrown of the cliff and into the ocean. The next day the women prisoners are washing clothes when three escape convicts kill three guys and take the four women prisoners into hiding. QUESTIONS: Who were the four inmates that took the girls? Why did they take the girls? Why are the four men separated from the group? MY THOUGHTS: I love this movie. This movie had three ingredients that make a great movie. Action, drama, and beautiful woman. I think Don Marshall was good in his role as AJ. I also thought that Monk and Dr Milford where good in their roles also. Barbara Leigh was good in her role as Bunny, So was Ena Hartman in her role as Carmen and Marta Kristen in her role as Lee. However, this movie in my mind was all about Phyllis Davis. She was fantastic in her role as Joy. One of my favorite scenes is when Dylan tries to come onto Joy and she makes him take his pants off. Then she covers his privates with honey and then walks over to a stump full of bees and cracks with a stick and the bees chase Dylan into the water. With the three things, that makes a movie great in this picture. Also for the talent and beautiful body of Phyllis Davis, I give this movie 10 weasel star.

After the Supreme Court outlaws the death penalty, California circumvents the ruling by sending murderers to a secluded island, where they are declared 'legally dead' and expected to kill each other off. Four intrepid ladies spend some miserable time in the hierarchical sexist work camp on one side of the island, then run off to join the liberated comrades on the other side. There's some pretty big statements waiting to happen in there, and they come through loud 'n' brassy, but they are made in the firm confines of a rockin' 70s drive-in action movie. This is a co-ed prison flick on a cheaper set, with a great bunch of weirdo characters floating around and future Magnum P. I. cast members sweetening the pot. Smart and well made too.