Snatched Women (1971) User Reviews

no Dyanne Thorne but Jane Allyson is here

[mw-95436 · 5/10 · 5 May 2017]

Yes, some idiot got it into their head that Dyanne Thorne appears in this hardcore film, but it's obviously fake news at work. A breast comparison between Ms. Thorne and the actress in the film puts that rumor to rest. However, the film is of historical interest because it might be the only time that actress Jane Allyson does hardcore.

In this film she is the pretty, but slightly overweight blonde, who has a threesome with one of the criminals. Jane Allyson has only 4 credits in her IMDb profile. I recall seeing her in The Godson, which was brightened considerably by her presence.

The actress who is not Dyanne Thorne has large breasts that can best be described as voluptuous. While her appearance is altered by a hideous black wig, she does not look familiar; I think I would have remembered those breasts.

All six females in this flick participate in the sex, and every sex scene has a money shot, which didn't always happen. The females are watchable, so I give this movie a 5 out of 10.

Dyanne Thorne

[straubchuck · 15 July 2008]

Here is an interesting note: this film features the only hard core scene ever by mainstream actress Dyanne Thorne. Look for her in the pink mini-dress with dark brown/red wig. The wig does a good but not complete job of hiding her face. Her physique is obvious as is her voice.

I have noted that this film is occasionally been referred to by the title "The Big Snatch". Not sure about this, but Something Weird Video calls it by "Snatched Women", and they are great archivists. I hope the following is a permitted comment, but this movie is available from Something Weird Video. There website is very complete and easy to search. Good luck shopping!!

Minimalist XXX, with no credits

[lor_ · 24 August 2011]

We have one of early porn's least appealing leading men Adam Ward dominating a high-concept, low-quality movie. He's one of three kidnappers (plus lovely Ally Sheedy-styled Jill Sweete as their confederate) who've grabbed five ladies, one of which is supposedly the correct daughter being held for ransom. That's the entire plot line, which after a brief outdoors opening scene of the grab, proceeds to unfold on two very fake, under-dressed studio sets.

Primitively filmed mainly in continuous take master shots, this desultory porn exercise is utterly routine. Each of the guys takes turns forcing one of the five gals to have sex with him in a bedroom that merely has a mattress set up on wooden blocks, not even a real bed (cheap as it gets). At one point Sweete watches and masturbates, joining in for a tiresome threesome.

It is Ward's usual stream of porn-consciousness improvised dialog that dominates, as he rapes a 14-year-old hostage girl, talking her endlessly through various sexual positions in obvious pandering to the target Adult Cinema audience (circa 1970/71), where "no means yes" is part and parcel of an unhealthy attitude towards womankind. Modern terms like "politically incorrect" are 100% meaningless in the context of such primitive porn sensibilities.

The girl cries and keeps on expressing her pain ("It hurts!"), asking Ward to stop. Here was the possibility of creating a "roughie", so popular in the softcore late '60s, and later revived in the heavy S&M features of the late '70s. But the anonymous mavens who made SNATCHED WOMEN were timid souls, and the sex scenes have each girl acquiescing to rape, or even enjoying it.

The guys have a pow-wow minus Sweete halfway through the film where they announce that they will kill all the girls after getting the ransom money. Supposed "shock" ending is completely defused by this scene, and the only unresolved question left for me when this junker finally concluded was whether Sweete was included in the off-screen slaughter.

Editing, especially the sound editing of snatches of piano jazz and clashing muzak, is extremely poor. Like many another bottom of the barrel porn outing, that lousy hit of yore "Classical Gas" is played several times, this version featuring a banjo!