Island Women is one of Dietrich's best known titles. Which probably only means that it has been given an actual video release somewhere, instead of just turning up at some adult movie theater downtown. Anyhow, the story, is, as expected, kept to a minimum. It's the women-in-prison standard plot. But Dietrich is a veteran of exploitation cinema and knows that if the movie looks good and has lots of gratuitous nudity, it'll be alright anyway. About the plot now. Somewhere in South America a couple of prostitutes (ladies of the night) are arrested by the military and taken to a prison island. The usual stuff follows; nudity, group sex, showers, nude wrestling, nude whipping, more showers and a commandant in leather gere. And only in a Dietrich movie (well, perhaps not only) would three inmates escape butt nude by crawling under barbed-wire fence, in close-up, to freedom in the beautiful mountains chased by a guy in beard. The wicked commandant is later captured by revolutionaries and sent back to her own prison. There's a funny anecdot about the shooting of this film, of how Dietrich loved to see his nude actresses run, so he kept them running as much as possible, even if he didn't use it in the film. Good? Not really. It's not as violent or depraved as Jess Franco's similar movies for Dietrich the producer (Frauen Gef?ngenis bla bla), so in that way it's a quite safe watch. Fairly enjoyable with a better than average photography. Fans of the genre has suffered worse.