Genre: | Drama |
Screenplay: | Mark Rodgers |
Story: | Mark Rodgers |
Director: | William A. Graham |
Starring: | Stella Stevens Debbie Allen Hector Elizondo Amy Steel Rosanna DeSoto |
Theme Music Composer: | John Cacavas |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Executive Producer: | David Gerber |
Producer: | Stephen Cragg R. W. Goodwin |
Editor: | Ronald J. Fagan |
Cinematography: | Robert Steadman |
Location: | Canon City, Colorado |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Company: | David Gerber Productions MGM/UA Television |
Network: | NBC |
Women of San Quentin is a 1983 TV movie about female prison guards at San Quentin Prison. It stars Stella Stevens and Debbie Allen.
It was based on a story by Larry Cohen. He had gone to San Quentin to research a different project and was intrigued by finding a female guard there. He sold it to television but says it was rewritten and changed from the story he originally conceived.[1]
A young female prison guard finds out her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.