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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0736991415638 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC Label: New Concorde Manufacturer: New Concorde Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Concorde Release Date: November 15, 1996 Running Time: 89 minutes Sales Rank: 40444 Studio: New Concorde Theatrical Release Date: 1976-04
Amazon.com: Yvette Mimieux is an East Coast professional who tires of life in Hollywood and decides to drive cross-country back to New York, until a carjacking on a rural highway plunges her into the worst night of her life. She's pawed by a sleazy bar owner, jailed next to cold killer Tommy Lee Jones, and raped by a lascivious slob of a jailer. When the sloppy good-ol'-boy cop reaches out to her in belated shame, his touch sends her into a panicked attack and she beats the life out of him until Jones drags her from the jail in an impromptu escape. On the surface this mix of Southern-fried cars-and-guns adventure and woman-in-peril thriller might look like pure exploitation. Director Michael Miller certainly shows a flair for wild car chases and pitched gunplay, but he also shows an unexpected sensitive hand in the seamier elements of the film. Mimieux is no shrinking victim; she carves out a strong, assured character slowly stripped of her dignity, and her shock and emotional hysteria during and following the attack is piercing. Tommy Lee Jones, in his first leading role, shows his star potential in a relaxed and confident performance as a terse career crook on the run from a murder rap. Almost philosophical about his way of life ("I was born dead," he tosses off before making a run for it), he is at once clear-eyed, candid, and the most tender character in the film. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating: - Lackluster 1970's Flick
Jackson County Jail is just a slapdash effort that takes what could have been a thrilling movie and makes it into just so much mush. It begins in Los Angeles when liberated career woman Dinah Hunter (Yvette Mimieux) quits her job as a producer of commercials after a client pans one of her latest creations. She then goes home and catches her husband with a local beauty.
Once done informing her husband that she is fed up with his infidelity, she then leaves Los Angeles for a new job in New York, intending to drive herself there. She does so without doing any packing or any of the ... Read More
Rating: - Jackson County jail...no place for a lady!
Well I'll tell you what, when producer Roger Corman comes across something successful in one of his cinematic projects, he certainly milks the hell out of it...take this film, titled Jackson County Jail (1976) aka The Innocent Victim. A fairly popular movie, one that did well both in terms of box office receipts and critical acclaim, has since been remade at least two times, once in 1978 as a made for TV movie titled Outside Chance, featuring many of the actors present from the original film (but not Tommy Lee Jones), and then again in 1997 with the film titled Macon County Jail, which featured ... Read More
Rating: - "Caught In The Clenched Fist Of Jackson County Justice!"
Well, at least that's what the voiceover in the theatrically shown film trailer proclaims. Released in 1976 'Jackson County Jail' has developed a legitimate cult following in the years since. While it may appear to the average movie viewer to be much-ado-about-nothing hardcore fans of the genre love this Roger Corman produced pic. Independent film maker Corman himself has a huge nearly unfathomable cult following; taking this factor into account it isn't a wonder that this minor gem remains well-known today. If it had anyone else's name attached to it I imagine 'Jackson County Jail' would have ... Read More
Rating: - Yvette Is A Dish !!
O.K., so this movie is a typical Roger Corman production with the usual Roger Corman production values. That makes it, of course, a really worthwhile film. Corman may have made some weirdos, but all of his movies are fun. Tommy Lee Jones was perfectly cast in Jackson County Jail. I think perhaps only Steve Railsback could have matched the performance. Yvette? This is as cruise-speed sexy as she has ever been. And, her performance is Grade A. This movie has a large cult following for various reasons. And, even though it's not the best of it's genre, it is a film worth the price. Good ole' ... Read More
Rating: - Good film, terrible DVD
I guess you don't have to rave about the superior direction and acting anymore, as this is one of the 70's films which deserves its cult reputation. I only wish the production of this DVD had been adequate - the image is good, but the sound is TERRIBLE. Especially the opening scene in the monitoring room and the scene with Yvette Mimieux meeting the teenage hitchhikers are hardly audible. My dupe of the old Warner rental tape sounds better. Shame on you, guys!
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