Black mom, white mom

One of the Philippine islands. The police transport two prisoners from one women's prison to another. One of them is a black prostitute Lee Daniels, the other is a white revolutionary Karen Brent. Girls are driven in chains chained together. Suddenly, guerrillas who want to free Karen attack the bus with the prisoners during transportation. Reinforcements come to the rescue and the partisans have to retreat. In the turmoil of the battle, Lee and Karen manage to escape, but they cannot immediately connect with the partisans. The girls have a conflict over which way they should go. Karen wants to go to the partisans, and Lee needs to go to the other end of the island, where her friend lives, who has a boat. While in prison, these girls did not get along with each other, and now they need to get through the jungle together, being chained to each other.

The girls are persecuted by law enforcement, who in their search resort to the help of the local gangster Ruben. Partisans who need Karen are trying to get ahead of the police. At the same time, the drug mafia is looking for Lee, because earlier she stole a lot of money from them. At some point, Ruben's gang and partisans clash together face to face. The partisans manage to cope with the bandits and after a while they find Karen and Lee. The girls, after going through many trials, became friends and Karen asks his associates to take Lee to her friend with the boat. Partisans arrive at the pier, where they are ambushed by the drug mafia. A fierce battle ensues. Lee manages to board the longboat and leave the island, but Karen dies during the battle. Arriving military who detain the survivors. The wounded guerrilla leader manages to leave.

• Pam Grier - Lee Daniels
• Margaret Markov - Karen Brent
• Sid Haig - Ruben
• Lynn Borden - Densmore
• Zeldy Zhornak - Ernesto
• Laurie Burton - Logan
• Eddie Garcia - Captain Cruz
• Alena Alegre - Juan
• Dindo Fernando - Rocco
• Vic Diaz - Vic Cheng
• Wendy Green - Ronda
• Lotus Key - Jeanette
• Alfonso Carvajal - Galindo
• Bruno Punzalan - truck driver
• Subas Herrero - Luis
• Hess Ramos - Alfredo
• Carpi Asturias - Lupe
• Andress Centenera - Leonardo

The film was produced by Four Associates Ltd, owned by American actor and Filipino filmmaker . The finished film was acquired and distributed by American International Pictures . It was another film about a women's prison filmed in the Philippines . Pam Grier had already appeared in such films by this moment: The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), and Margaret Markov had a role in the film The Stuffy Camera "(1972). In 1974, the Grier-Markov duet will appear again in the movie Arena . The film Black Mom, White Mom draws its inspiration from the 1958 film Chained Together . According to the plot of this film, black and white prisoners chained to each other escape from the guard of a prison convoy and are forced to survive together ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} .

"Black Mom, White Mom" ​​is a low-budget category B movie that has received mixed reviews. The Los Angeles Times spoke about him in the spirit that “it is so bad that it’s good” ^[7] . Slant Magazine noted that although the film was modeled after Roger Corman’s films , it has “an unusually dense and complex narrative” ^[8] . According to Blu-ray.com, the film is stupid most of the time, but Pam Grier’s game “looks winning” and this is the time when she has not yet had the success that awaits her very soon after the release of Coffey (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) ^[9] .