It stars Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, and Marie Windsor, with Mike Connors and Ed Nelson in small roles.

The film follows undercover police officer Lee Hampton, who infiltrates a band of three female convicts authorities allow to escape from prison.

Three escaped female convicts, along with an undercover policewoman, Lee Hampton, begin a search for stolen diamonds in the Louisiana swamps.

A fight ensues between the convicts and the undercover officer, assisted by the geologist, which allows the authorities enough time to show up and regain custody of the two remaining fugitives.

That laid a very clear exploitation track to follow.” [4] A former Louisiana governor owned a large plantation, and invited the filmmakers to make a movie there.

[4] (The end credits thanks Mayor De Lesseps Morrison and Police Chief John Dayries of New Orleans and Governor Robert Kennon of Louisiana.)

Barney was always in a hurry, while Larry was much more cool and quiet, and not so much of a character.”[1] Beverly Garland, who would go on to make several films with Corman, called the movie: A terrible thing!

[9] Ed Nelson, later of Peyton Place fame, was living in New Orleans at the time, working as a floor manager for WDSU, when he heard of the film.

"[10] He added, ""This included bringing the limited supply of hot water to the almost primitive hotel rooms at the Georgian Manor so the performers and crew could bathe.

I made hot coffee for the cast and crew, and maintained a cooler of cold Barq's Root Beer, Louisiana's favorite soft drink, when the heat was at its worst.

"[3] Wild animals, such as an alligator and a rattlesnake, were hired from Arthur Jones, who then ran a roadside attraction off Highway 11 in Slidell.

The Los Angeles Times said both movies "take ones credulity firmly by the neck, shake it, twist it, and finally bend it double before the action, such as it is, ends.

Then in the early seventies they helped finance Corman's first movies for New World Pictures, The Student Nurses and The Big Bird Cage, before setting up their own company, Dimension.

[4] In July 1993, the film was featured in the movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the title Swamp Diamonds and with the instructional short What To Do on a Date.

[17] In the pilot episode of 2019 Hulu series Reprisal, clips from Swamp Women are briefly seen during a sequence set at a drive-in movie theater.