Bad Girls: Movie Posters of Dangerous Dames, Sizzling Sirens, and Gun-Toting Gals

Insatiable sirens with more curves than a scenic railway.

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Guns, Girls, and Gangsters’ (1959).

Apparently.

They were the kind of girls Mama was supposed to warn you about.

You know the kind. Bad Girls. Voracious dames who would pawn their virtue for a pack of smokes and a half-pint of bourbon.

You dig?

Insatiable sirens with more curves than a scenic railway.

I can say only one thing: I am grateful I never listened to Mama.

The one thing Hollywood once got right was movies starring women being something other than Doris Day.

You know, Doris Day thinking about husbanding Rock Hudson for 2.4 kids, a house with a porch, and Baked Alaska on every third Saturday in the month.

And the irony of it being Rock Hudson.

These are posters of films featuring women who were themselves. Happy gunslingers. Dedicated nymphos. Bruise-lipped sirens who have nothing to sing about and nothing to lose.

And those sad-eyed victims of gross misogyny.

Maybe hard to admit, but there was a truth in these B-movies which today’s ultra-inclusive films fail to represent.

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Gun Crazy’ (1950).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘The Wayward Girl’ (1957).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Riot in Juvenile Prison’ (1959).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘One Girl’s Confession’ (1953).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘High School Hellcats’ (1958).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Over-Exposed’ (1956).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Teenage Bad Girl’ (1956).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Under Age’ (1941).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Pickup’ (1951).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘The Unholy Wife’ (1957).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Three Bad Sisters’ (1956).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘She’s Dangerous’ (1937).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘The Outlaw’ (1943).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Bad Blonde’ (1953).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Blonde Sinner’ (1956).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Girls on the Loose’ (1958).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Satan in High Heels’ (1962).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Savage Sisters’ (1974).

 

Movie Posters, strong women, bad girls, B-movies, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s

‘Reform School Girls’ (1986).

 

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