Nightmare in Badham County

Nightmare in Badham County is a 1976 American women-in-prisontelevisiondramahorrorthriller film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Chuck Connors, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Reed, Tina Louise, Della Reese, Lana Wood and Ralph Bellamy. Its plot follows two female college students from California who, while traveling cross-country, are remanded to a women's prison farm in a corrupt Southern town.

The film was so popular in China that it was released in cinemas and Raffin became the first Western actress to make a promotional tour of the country, after which she became an unofficial ambassador helping China make deals with Hollywood.