a.k.a. The Jezebels

Directed by Jack Hill
Cast: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Kitty Bruce, Marlene Clark

 

The Silver Daggers are a gang of young hoods who control an inner-city high school, where they sell drugs and sex to the student body and fight anyone who gets in their way. The Daggers have a ladies' auxiliary, The Dagger Debs, who rumble just as hard as the men, but one day chief Dagger Deb Lace meets her match in Maggie, a new kid who won't back down. When a scuffle lands Maggie and the Debs in jail for the night, Maggie comes to Lace's rescue, and Maggie becomes Lace's new right-hand woman. However, fellow Deb Patch is jealous of Maggie's friendship with Lace, and begins spinning a web of deceit to destroy Lace's trust in the new deb. In the midst of the infighting, the Silver Daggers find their turf challenged by a rival gang who pose as a community action team, and the Debs join forces with a revolutionary political group.

Even if your not a big Tarantino fan, you have to give him credit for bringing this Jack Hill gem back into the spotlight. Although the reform school scene is a brief part of the movie, it's a classic. Jack Hill has assembled some of the best dialogue delivered by a fine cast in shotgun fashion. Switchblade Sisters has excellent cinematography and fast cuts that never lets up from one classic scene to the next. This is an important work of exploitation that rivals Hill's Spider Baby and The Big Bird Cage. A Must See!