Vendetta is a 1986 women in prison film directed by Bruce Logan and starring Karen Chase and Sandy Martin.

Laurie Collins (Chase) is an attractive and highly successful stuntwoman in the motion picture industry.

Her job on one film takes her to a small town not far from where her younger sister Bonnie Cusack (Michelle Newkirk) lives.

Though the case seems like a sure open-to-shut one of self-defense, Bonnie is shocked when she is charged with murder, as she learns that her attacker was the son of an influential local politician.

While the older and heavier Kay is physically stronger and has considerable endurance for her age, she proves to be no match for Laurie's stuntwoman training.

The scene then cuts to the movie's final shot, showing Laurie being picked up from prison by her boyfriend and now living life as a free woman.

Roberta Collins was reportedly pitched for the lead role by co-writer and co producer Emil Farkas but declined, and instead played a less physical support part, that of a sympathetic guard.

It was one of a number of performances Collins gave in Chroma III films[1] The Los Angeles Times called it "your typically, lurid, brutal women's prison exploitation icture cranked a coupe of notches above the usual, thanks to some verse, vivid acting under Bruce Logan's dynamic direction.

"[3] The San Francisco Examiner thought "the film's major problem" was that Chase "has a rather limited repertoire of martial arts moves.

"[4] The Baltimore Sun said "it hits all the marks in this indefensible genre with the appropriate professionalism though rather too much relish for anybody's good... it's rather well made garbage.