Jessi's Girls (1975)
7/10
Cut from the Hannie Coulder Mold
22 June 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Spoiler Alert You may recall super sexy Rachel Welch playing "bad a--" Hannie Coulder. The premise for that movie was brought over to this movie, with Sondra Currie enlisting the help of really mean spirited women outlaws that she turns into her gang. I watched Sondra Currie shoot man after man in cold blood and said to myself, she is really shocking. THE ULTIMATE BAD GIRL. The problem I had with the movie is Sondra never smiles. She is nasty but in a very disturbed kind of way, like a tortured soul (ala Sondra Locke in Sudden Impact). I am certain that type of person exists, but they usually do not start killing.

Frankly, I really do not ever recall Sondra Currie smiling in any movie she made, for example Police Woman. I guess she alway was the tortured soul.

I liked Hannie Coulder better, because, Sondra is quiet and tortured and we really do not find a person under that, while Rachel as Hannie, is really a person, just looking for justice and ready to go back to life, if she can, after justice has been served. I rooted more for Rachel as Hannie. But I watched this Jessi's girls a dozen times for the shocking portrayal of female violence.
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