99 Women

99 Women is a 1969 women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Rohm, Rosalba Neri, Luciana Paluzzi and Herbert Lom. One of the earliest and most financially successful examples of the genre, it was produced by Harry Alan Towers as an international co-production. The script was purchased from Robert L. Lippert. Cast Herbert Lom as Governor Santos Mercedes McCambridge as Thelma Diaz Maria Schell as Leonie Caroll Maria Rohm as Marie, #99 Rosalba Neri as Zoie, #76 Elisa Montes as Helga, #97 Luciana Paluzzi as Natalie Mendoza, #98 Valentina Godoy as Rosalie, #81 José Maria Blanco as Doctor Reception From contemporary reviews, an anonymous reviewer in the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed a 70-minute version. The reviewer found it to be a "Crude women's prison melodrama" with a "turgid script that rambles coyly on about lesbianism, flogging and the kinky pleasures of the Governor of a men's prison", concluding that the film was "all very tame and unremittingly tedious”.