Swamp Women was one of the first films directed by Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...

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 follows undercover police officer Lee Hampton who joins three female convicts and escapes from prison. The escape is part of a larger plot to uncover a cache of diamonds hidden deep within the swamps of Louisiana

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. This film is sometimes also known as Cruel Swamp or Swamp Diamonds. The film is now in the public domain

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In July 1993 the film was featured in the movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000

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under the title Swamp Diamonds.

DVD releases

• The film has been released by multiple companies as a 'bargain box' disc.
• The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video
  Rhino Entertainment
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   as part of the Collection, Volume 10 (out-of-print on both Rhino's and Mst3k's official websites) and Collection, Volume 10.2 DVD sets. As of January 2010, Volume 10.2 is out-of-print on Rhino's official website, but still available on Mst3k's official website.
• This was also released as part of a large DVD box set of vintage exploitation films called Girls Gone Bad
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