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59% Critic Match
Nightmare in Badham County
“Where Innocence Is A Punishable Crime”
5.9 / 10• 1976• 1h 42m•R• English
DramaActionTV MovieCrimeThriller
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Deborah Raffin
Cathy Phillips
Lead
Lynne Moody
Diane Emery
Chuck Connors
Sheriff Danen
Fionnula Flanagan
Dulcie
Tina Louise
Greer
Robert Reed
Supt Dancer
Della Reese
Sarah
Lana Wood
Smitty
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Llewellyn Moxey's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Nightmare in Badham County is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
