Sweet Sugar (1972): Cast & Plot
Sweet Sugar is a 1972 action drama directed by Michel Levesque, starring Phyllis Davis as Sugar Bowman, Ellaraino and Cliff Osmond. It runs 1 hour 26 minutes.
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 26m (86 min)
- Director
- Michel Levesque
- Original language
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English - Studio
- Dimension Pictures
- After the credits
- No No extra scene
What Is Sweet Sugar About?
The premise of Sweet Sugar without spoilers. The whole story is in the plot summary further down.
Bitter Days…Sweet Nights A young woman nabbed in a drug bust chooses to work on a sugarcane plantation with other convicts instead of going to jail.
Sweet Sugar Themes & Keywords
· 50 tags- shower
- female nudity
- women's prison
- drugs
- rape
- independent film
- sugar plantation
- heroic death
- forced labor
- burning to death
- impaled on sword
- murder
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- torture
- campfire
- whip fight
- whipped woman
- butler
- female topless nudity
- lesbian
- shooting a woman
- marijuana
- smoking a joint
- incarceration
- framed
- riding in the back of a truck
- upskirt
- harvesting sugar cane
- flashing breasts
- bare chested male
- pulled by one's ear
- attempted rape
- prison labor
- machete
- man in a bubble bath
- injection in arm
- female orgasm
- meter
- off scale
- jeep
- skinny dipping
- female female kiss
- whipping a woman
- shot multiple times
- chained spread eagle
- burned
- snared
- hanging upside down
- caught having sex
- lab animal
- animal in a cage
Sweet Sugar Cast & Characters
Phyllis Davis leads the cast as Sugar Bowman, with Ellaraino as Simone (as Ella Edwards) and Cliff Osmond as Burgos. Directed by Michel Levesque; 16 actors are credited in all.
- Director Michel Levesque
- Phyllis Davis as Sugar Bowman
- Ellaraino as Simone (as Ella Edwards)
- Cliff Osmond as Burgos
- Angus Duncan as Dr. John
Also Starring in Sweet Sugar
· 12 more- Pamela Collins Dolores
- Darl Severns Carlos
- Timothy Brown Mojo
- Jacqueline Giroux Fara Ramirez (as Jackie Giroux)
- Albert Cole Max
- James Whitworth Mario
- James Houghton Rick
- Elvira Oropeza Helena
- Nicholas Baker
- Ramón Coll
- Juan Antillon Freer
- Antonio Casas Figueroa
More from Michel Levesque
One more film directed by Michel Levesque: Werewolves on Wheels.
Sweet Sugar Plot Summary
What happens in Sweet Sugar from start to finish, spoilers included, with a timeline of 13 key events. The opening is below; the full summary is a 2-minute read.
Spoilers ahead
Sugar Bowman, Phyllis Davis, chooses two years of grueling labor on a sugar-cane plantation over a jail term on a trumped-up drug charge. She arrives with a new inmate, Simone Ellaraino, and immediately runs into Burgos Cliff Osmond, a brutal guard, and Dr. John Angus Duncan, the deranged plantation owner who conducts dangerous medical experiments.
Life on the plantation proves punishing from the start. The inmates spend endless days in the field, wielding machetes to cut cane under harsh conditions while Dr. John’s drug trials grow more invasive and unsettling. In one horrific turn, he rapes Dolores [Pamela Collins], the 17-year-old prisoner, revealing the callous brutality at the heart of his experiments.
Full summary
The whole story of Sweet Sugar, scene by scene
Sweet Sugar Trailers & Videos
2 videos: 1 trailer and 1 featurette.
- Featurette Larry Karaszewski on SWEET SUGAR
How Well Do You Know Sweet Sugar?
10 questions about the story, each with a hint if you get stuck. Pick an answer to see whether you were right.
Question 1 of 10
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What crop do the inmates spend endless days cutting with machetes?
Cars in Sweet Sugar
15 cars on screen, including the 1962 Thames Trader and the Willys Jeep CJ-3A.
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1962 Thames Trader Main role -
Willys Jeep CJ-3A Main role -
1959 Ford F-250 Important role -
Ford GPW Important role
Sweet Sugar Also Known As
8 alternative titles, including “L'isola delle salamandre” and “Captive Women 3”.
- Also known as
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- L'isola delle salamandre
- Captive Women 3
- Hel voor Verdoemde Vrouwen
- Lost Women - Flucht aus Camp 21
- Сладкая милашка
- 蜜糖
- 스윗 슈가
- Sweet Sugar - Wildkatzen im Frauencamp
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Movies Like Sweet Sugar
Films with a similar story, tone or audience, including Sugar Boxx, Sugar Cookies and Sweet Trash.
Sweet Sugar FAQ: Cast, Runtime & Release Date
Runtime, release date, director, cast and post-credit scenes of Sweet Sugar, each answered in a sentence.
How long is Sweet Sugar?
Sweet Sugar runs 1 hour 26 minutes (86 minutes).
When was Sweet Sugar released?
Sweet Sugar was released on June 9, 1972.
Who directed Sweet Sugar?
Sweet Sugar was directed by Michel Levesque.
More films by Michel Levesque Who is in the cast of Sweet Sugar?
Sweet Sugar stars Phyllis Davis as Sugar Bowman, Ellaraino as Simone (as Ella Edwards) and Cliff Osmond as Burgos, among 16 credited actors.
Does Sweet Sugar have a post-credit scene?
No. Sweet Sugar has no extra scene during or after the credits.
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