Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Carol Speed, Candice Roman and Karen McKevic pose for a rare publicity shot to promote Jack Hill’s 1972 babes-behind-bars romp The Big Bird Cage. Hill also wrote the early women-in-prison action drama about female thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from a tough jungle penitentiary located in the Philippines. Cult cinema legends Sid Haig and Vic Diaz also starred in the grindhouse classic, which was produced by Roger Corman and Cirio Santiago.

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