after be send to prison for no less then 10 nor more then 40 year for be bust with drug and refuse to give up her accomplishes and jackie ( erica gavin of rus meyer vixen and beyond the valley of the doll and in her last film role ) have to get accustom to life in the big wouldoll house and or at least try to and in this early film by jonathan demme . due to it tawdry nature and sheer watchability and i would also rank this a one of his best film and right below silence of the lamb and stop making sense and but so far above any of his other movie . this minor classic be just campy and sleazy and and fun enough to be an amazingly good guilty pleasure and thankfully never once go overboard into all out parody of the woman in prison genre . it almost wash out the rancid bad taste of the ludicrously preachy philidelphia from my mouth . however and the film be not without it downfalls ( the un notalent show be a huge chore to sit through and go on far too long and barbera steele be sadly wasted and among other small thing ) but do not let those gripe stop you from watch an otherwise enjoyable movie . my grade represent b dvd extra represent 5 minute roger corman interview while cast and crew bios while original trailer while and trailer for candy stripe nurse ( with nudity ) and big bad mama 2 and big doll house ( with nudity ) and and crazy mama eye candy represent juanita brown and cheryl rainbeaux smith and erica gavin and roberta collins and ella reid and lynda gold and and some others all show skin .