Nightmare In Badham County (1976)

Two college girls (Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody) from California are traveling through the deep South when they have car trouble. The town sheriff (Chuck Connors) doesn't like their attitude and arrests them for trespassing. After raping one of the girls, the sheriff with the assistance of the town's corrupt Judge (Ralph Bellamy) have the girls sent to a prison work farm. Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey (CITY OF THE DEAD). Originally made for television as an ABC movie of the week, the film was released theatrically overseas in Europe and Asia (it was a box office smash in China). I watched the theatrical version which includes nudity, foul language and lesbian sex not in the TV version and runs about 11 minutes longer. It's all under the pretense of showing the ghastly and corrupt conditions of prison farms but it's really an exploitation movie (think BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA from 1973) that wants to titillate us with sadism and girl on girl sex while deploring the cruelty and exploitation of female prison workers. I felt a bit sleazy watching it. With Tina Louise, Lana Wood, Robert Reed, Della Reese and Fionnula Flanagan.