Journey Among Women
This is an interesting Australian film on a number of levels. As a story it is fractured, scatty, almost feral. That's due, in part, to the subject-matter: the story of female convict escapees. But the chaos owes at least as much to the way in which the film was made.
Director Tom Cowan adopted a workshop technique, whereby the film was partly scripted, and partly improvised. Behind-the-scenes bickering didn't help.
Apparently, author Dorothy Hewitt worked on the script until funds ran out. Aside from her, there were two men who worked on the script. Being the seventies, there was some debate as to whether men could write a film about women.
Journey Among Women is a product of its time: the gratuitous nudity wouldn't have been out of place amid the Ozploitation fare being produced at the time.
Aside from the underlying sexual politics, both in the film's themes and in its production, this has become somewhat of a cult film, thanks to one of its actors: Jude Kuring, aka Noeline Bourke, in the popular Australian TV series, Prisoner.