Maidens of the Dormitory (1976) User Reviews

Never confuse very young girls with young girls or even just girls

[Karl Self · 2/10 · 23 March 2023]

After endless years of tireless hunting, I might well have discovered the absolutely worst film ever of all times. After a bit of mafia tomfoolery ("Make sure to send his corpse home to his mom in Sicily ... I always keep my promises!"), the story focuses on a training camp for girls who are being forced into prostitution (although two of them point out that they were already prostituting themselves just for fun) run by an international crime ring of French criminals. The girls, including Karine Gambier with her signature blonde quiff, are actually beautiful, but since this is a softcore movie with full frontal nudity at best, not much is being made of this asset. A tough female pimp of colour, Carla, gets into the picture, who, after endlessly long 75 minutes, turns out to be a police informer.

This film is known as "Blutjunge Mädchen, zur Liebe gezwungen" ("Very young girls, forced into love") in German. All too easily confused with the entirely different movies "Junge Mädchen, zur Liebe gezwungen" and "Mädchen, zur Liebe gezwungen". A lot of forcing of various girls going on in the 1970ies, apparently. I was actually after the giallo "La settima donna", which also goes under the German name of "Junge Mädchen, zur Liebe gezwungen".

Good 1970s sexploitation

[John_Mclaren · 6/10 · 3 January 2008]

The title translates as "The Young Ladies of the Boarding School", and has recently been re-released in Germany in softcore (cert 14)format as "Strassenmadchen Report II". It has also been released uncut on X-Cult DVD as "Madchenpensionat".

The film has no connection with the original "Strassenmadchen" film, although the exploitationist tone is omnipresent.

The girls in question are forced into high class prostitution by a combination of tuition and compulsion. Most of the leading actresses give us FFN, although the extras were perhaps more attractive than the main stars.

The "14" version is not much different from the uncut version, save for a small addition to a branding scene. Nevertheless, I would go for the uncut version on principle grounds. It is classic 70s exploitation and all the better for that- even if in the end it is no more than a modest addition to the oeuvre ...