| 1000 Convicts and a Woman | |
| Director: | Ray Austin |
| Producer: | Philip N. Krasne |
| Starring: | Alexandra Hay Sandor Elès Harry Baird |
| Music: | Peter J. Elliott |
| Cinematography: | Gerald Moss |
| Editing: | Philip Barnikel |
| Distributor: | Scotia-Barber |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Fun and Games (also known as Bed Games; US title: 1000 Convicts and a Woman) is a 1971 British sexploitation film directed by Ray Austin and starring Alexandra Hay, Sandor Elès, Harry Baird and Neil Hallett.[1] An oversexed teenage girl causes havoc among the inmates of a British prison governed by her father.
Seventeen year-old Angela Thorne returns from an American boarding school to live with her father, who has turned his country estate into an experimental open prison, of which he is the Governor. She seeks sexual attention from various prison inmates, leading to blackmail and death.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As tedious as it is unconvincing, Fun and Games (helpfully subtitled 'A Portrait of a Nymphomaniac') charts the one-dimensional adventures of a teenager whose petulance Alexandra Hay suggests with a piercing monotone giggle, forever wiggling her thighs in the direction of the hardened criminals who freely roam around the country club setting of an improbably open prison. The naughty boarding school atmosphere is occasionally interrupted by some aggressively nasty scenes: Angela rubbing off her frustrations on the handlebars of her bicycle, or unzipping her jeans to taunt the moronic Gribney. Despite the film's token attempts to win sympathy for her behaviour with pat Freudian explanations, the camerawork suggests only a cynical and prurient detachment. Most of the prisoners show stalwart good sense in ignoring her silly antics; it's a pity the film's makers did not do likewise."[2]