BUST OUT (1973) ***

Ric Lutze and Ralph Wain star as two escaped convicts who are on the run in the wilderness.  It just so happens a devoutly Christian couple (Myron Griffin and Candy Samples) are holding a Sunday school picnic with four nubile Catholic schoolgirls nearby.  While the group is partaking in Christian fellowship, Darlene (Rene Bond) slips out into the woods for some nude sunbathing and sex with her boyfriend (Steven Sommers).  The convicts eventually stumble upon the picnickers and ingratiate themselves by posing as geologists, and it doesn’t take long for them to get their “rocks off” with the horny Catholic schoolgirls.  Once the convicts are found out, the girls become more than willing accomplices and help imprison the couple and force them to give in to their captors’ lascivious demands.

Directed by John (Grave of the Vampire) Hayes, a director I always felt should’ve had a bigger following, Bust Out is a solid slice of ‘70s softcore exploitation.  Although he was working on an obviously shoestring budget, Hayes infuses the film with a lot of knowing humor, which makes it fun.  Hayes gets a lot of mileage from constantly cutting back and forth between the couple discussing Christian morals with the teenage girls’ cries of passion in the woods.  This often results in some pretty big laughs.  Even the forced sex scenes have an element of humor to them (like when the girls tie their mentor’s member to a rope to help him “get it up”).  

Rene Bond is the real reason to watch it.  Fans of outdoor sex scenes are in for a real treat as Bond has many hot scenes where she frolics in the woods wearing only knee-high red leather boots and a golden belly chain.  While she’s busy getting banged by her boyfriend in the woods, the other girls are off getting passed around by the horny convicts.  (The scenes of the girls bent over logs and getting plowed from behind are especially steamy.)  I only wish Candy Samples had more to do as she only gets to participate in one sex scene and keeps her clothes on for the majority of the film.

The print I saw was so jumpy that the final act is rendered pretty much incomprehensible.  I don’t know if there was a reel missing or what, but the convicts go from holding the couple hostage indoors to being dead on the ground outside within the span of a jump cut.  Even then, it only adds to the overall quirkiness and fun of the picture.

AKA:  Convicts Women.