Switchblade Sisters


Switchblade Sisters is a 1975 action and exploitation film detailing the lives of high schoolaged female gang members. It was directed by Jack Hill and stars Joanne Nail, Robbie Lee and Monica Gayle. A personal favorite of Quentin Tarantino, the film was rereleased in 1996 under Tarantinos Rolling Thunder Pictures label. This version of the film features a commentary by both Hill and Tarantino. The films tagline is So Easy to Kill, So Hard to Love.

Lace is released from juvenile hall and reunites with Dominic, telling him that she discovered she was pregnant during her incarceration. Dominic disavows fatherhood and refuses to help Lace care for the child, encouraging her to undergo an abortion. Meanwhile, the Silver Daggers have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs Chase Newhart, at the high school. After Crabs shoots Dominics brother and orchestrates the gang rape of one of the Debs, Maggie devises an ambush on Crabss men at a local roller rink. The effort proves disastrous when Crabs men show up armed with rifles, kill Dominic, and brutally assault Lace, causing her to miscarry. While Lace recuperates in the hospital, Maggie assumes leadership of the gang, expels the men and changes its name to The Jezebels. She teams up with Muff Marlene Clark and her gang of AfricanAmerican militants from across town to ambush Crabs. All the while, Maggie suspects that someone in her group tipped Crabs off to their plans at the roller rink, not knowing that Patch has already uncovered the real traitor Lace, who organized the ambush to get Maggie killed in revenge for her stealing Dom and for assuming the role of leader of the Dagger Debs. Patch agrees to cover for Lace and, after the ambush proves successful, she shoots Crabs before he can confess to Maggie.Back at the Jezebels hideout, Lace and Patch attempt to convince the gang that Maggie was the traitor. The members refuse to believe Laces assertions, and a knife fight ensues between Lace and Maggie. Maggie fatally stabs Lace in the throat, prompting a police strike force that had been surrounding the building to storm in and arrest everyone. The various members of the gang proudly proclaim themselves as members of the Jezebels, but when Patch attempts to identify herself as part of the gang to the police, the remaining members disavow any knowledge of her. The bloodsoaked Maggie becomes hysterical as she and the rest of the gang are

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