Nightmare in Badham County (1976)

Name: Nightmare in Badham County
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: 1976-11-05

1h 40m

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November 5, 1976
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Plot.

Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.

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Release Date
November 5, 1976

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 40m

Content Rating
R

Genres
Action Drama Thriller Crime

Last updated: 2025-02-24

This Movie Is About.

prison

escape

women's prison

racism

prison camp

Wiki.

Nightmare in Badham County is a 1976 American women-in-prison television film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Chuck Connors, Deborah Raffin, and Lynne Moody. Its plot follows two female college students from California who, while traveling cross-country, are remanded to a women's prison farm in a corrupt Southern town.

The film was so popular in China that it was released in cinemas and Raffin became the first Western actress to make a promotional tour of the country, after which she became an unofficial ambassador helping China make deals with Hollywood.