Ah, sorority girls. Ah, Roger Corman! What a duo. Sorority girls, all nubile and beautiful. Sorority girls, as vicious as ferocious cats. Petty...jealous...manipulative...and ready to pull hair, wrestle in the surf, or spank the snot out of a sister. Today we look at a film about a sorority at the University of Southern California...and the slaps, spankings, and catfights that are included. Let us look at the Roger Corman picture, 1957's "Sorority Girl."
Major league b***h, and sorority sister Sabra (Susan Cabot) is a rich girl from Malibu. She's also a...well, not a good person. When her mom (Fay Baker) cuts her off from the family money and allowance, Sabra becomes desperate. The evil dame sets her sights on her sisters. She humiliates a pledge, Ellie (Barbara Cowan). When Ellie does not do the exercise program Sabra demands her to do, a vicious paddle spanking ensues. Now Sabra is jealous because her roomie Rita (Barboura Morris) has a BF with money. The boyfriend is Mort (Dick Miller), who owns a bar. Sabra finds out the sultry Terry (Joan Lora) has secrets and finds out what those secrets are. Now Sabra blackmails Terry. Sabra also finds out a pretty blonde pledge had become pregnant. Tina (June Kenney) is with child and her boyfriend left. Tina works at Mort's bar and Sabra arranges it so Tina blackmails Mort for money. Tina did not want to, but Sabra blackmails her into blackmailing Mort.
Where is this all going? Well, Mort is smart...he has to be when surrounded by nubile college babes. The petty blackmail scheme will backfire and now Tina is in mortal danger. Sabra doesn't care about the welfare of the pledges or her sorority sisters. She even tries to seduce Mort away from Rita. Catfights will ensue, including some catfights in the surf while clad in swimsuits. I know what you are thinking, an inspiration for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW). Maybe. The film is prurient, brutal, and sad. Exploitation indeed, but not the feel good film of 1957.
Will Sabra get hers by the end of the film? Will all the beautiful sorority girls survive to the end credits? Will anyone beat Sabra in a catfight? For a neat exploitation film from a moviemaker who knows how to make them, see "Sorority Girl" and enjoy the cheesecake and the brutality.

















































