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1	* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/PennyIrving was a glamour model like her character Anne Marie.
2	* BannedInChina: The film is banned in Norway.
3	* BillingDisplacement: Barbara Markham (Margaret) and Patrick Barr (Justice Bailey) are billed first, even though Anne Marie and Julia are the film's protagonists. Creator/PennyIrving is given the [[AndStarring 'And Introducing' credit]], but Ann Michelle is billed after Creator/RayBrooks, who plays the lesser role of her boyfriend Tony but was also more recognisable for ''Series/CoronationStreet'' and ''Film/TheKnackAndHowToGetIt''.
4	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
5	** France: ''Flagellations''
6	** Italy: ''And Traces of Violence on the Body''
7	** Sweden: ''The Penitentiary''
8	* DawsonCasting: Anne Marie is said to be nineteen. Creator/PennyIrving was actually thirty-two!
9	* ExecutiveMeddling: Although there was lots of arguing back and forth with the censors, the fact that there seemed to be a lot of poignant social commentary in there meant that Pete Walker merely had to cut a shot of Anne Marie being whipped to get it passed.
10	* FakeBrit: Sheila Keith was Scottish, putting on an English accent to play Walker.
11	* FakeNationality: Creator/PennyIrving is British playing the French Anne Marie.
12	* GodNeverSaidThat: Many sources were convinced that Margaret Wakehurst and Justice Bailey were deliberate caricatures of Mary Whitehouse and Lord Langford, and their 'Festival of Light'. Pete Walker countered that Margaret came from a real person (see below for the inspiration) and that Mary Whitehouse was much different in personality to the character. Other sources claim that Margaret was based on women from the area in which he grew up, but he clarified that other interviewers noticed some similarities and he just admitted they had a point.
13	* PlayingAgainstType: Sheila Keith did a lot of comedies at the time, and Pete Walker decided to cast her against type as a sadistic prison warden.
14	--> "I don't know if you've noticed but comedy actors make terrific villains."
15	* ProductionPosse: Sheila Keith (Walker) also starred in Pete Walker's films ''Frightmare'' and ''The Confessional''.
16	* TechnologyMarchesOn:
17	** The truck driver who picks up Anne Marie [[spoiler: unwittingly sends her back into the prison by mistaking it for a private clinic. If it were these days, he'd be able to use a GPS to find the nearest hospital or else call an ambulance on his cell phone]].
18	** Julia asks to use the kitchen phone [[spoiler: and discovers Mark, thus setting up the climax. Again, with a cell phone...]]
19	* {{Tuckerization}}:
20	** Margaret Wakehurst was a real prison governess that existed in the 1800s and got fired for cruelty towards the inmates.
21	** Margaret's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is named Walker, after the director himself.
22	* TypeCasting:
23	** Robert Hayman plays a similar HandsomeLech in ''Film/VampireCircus''.
24	** Dorothy Gordon, who plays Bates, was cast because she had played a similar character in ''Women of Twilight''.
25	* UnbuiltCastingType: Creator/PennyIrving would later be better known as a MsFanservice in comedies of the 70s. In her first major role, she's playing a woman who's being punished for her MsFanservice nature, and incarcerated because she was photographed nude in public.
26	* WordOfGod: Pete Walker denies that Margaret Wakehurst and Justice Bailey are deliberate caricatures of Mary Whitehouse and Lord Longford. He says that there was a little inspiration, but Mary Whitehouse was a kindly librarian sort as opposed to the ruthless zealot Margaret was.
27	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
28	** Alfred Shaughnessy, of ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' fame, wrote a treatment but he was too busy with commitments to the TV show to write the full screenplay.
29	** The film was originally envisioned as a straight GirlsBehindBars flick, but Pete Walker read about a Victorian prison governess who was fired for excessive brutality and that helped form the story.
30	** Peggy Cummins auditioned for the role of Margaret Wakehurst but was turned down for being too attractive.

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