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Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960) -- Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.

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Director:
Bill Karn
Writer:
F. Paul Hall (writer)
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Release Date:
June 1960 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
No. 1 Female Gangster Of All Time! more
Plot:
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. full summary | add synopsis
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Don't waste your time with this one more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Lurene Tuttle ... Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker
Tristram Coffin ... Arthur Dunlop (as Tris Coffin)
Paul Dubov ... Alvin Karpis

Nelson Leigh ... George Barker
Myrna Dell ... Lou, Kelly's Girl
Victor Lundin ... Machine Gun Kelly (as Vic Lundin)
Don Grady ... Herman as a Boy
Gary Ammann ... Doc as a Boy
Donald Towers ... Lloyd as a Boy
Michael Smith ... Fred as a Boy
Don Spruance ... Herman Barker (as Donald Spruance)
Ron Foster ... Doc Barker / Austin Bennett (as Ronald Foster)
Rex Holman ... Lloyd Barker (as Roye Baker)

Eric Morris ... Fred Barker
Byron Foulger ... Dr. Guelffe
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Additional Details

Runtime:
82 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | UK:(Banned)

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Anachronisms: Although set in the mid-1930s, one of the cars parked on the street in front of a bank that is to be robbed is a 1955 Chevy. more
Quotes:
Lou, Kelly's Girl: [Ma grabs Lou's mink wrap, throws it on the ground and shoots it] Well why did you do that?!
Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Thought I saw it move and I didn't want it to bite you.
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 10 (2007) (V) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Don't waste your time with this one, 18 December 2006
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Author: vosamis-1 from United States

It's true, Ma Barker really did nothing, other than as the man said, provide a house of refuge for her admitedly killer brood. She never had a gun in her hand (the billboard for the movie shows her blasting away with a "tommy" gun) and would not even have known how to fire one (she was not bright). Ma Barker never was charged with a crime, and was never arrested. She was shot by Hoover's "G Men" in I think 1935, and they had to justify he murder somehow, so they just made up the story of her being a criminal master mind. Anyhow, this movie stinks, not just because it is fake, but from what the young man above said so well, that it is just a junky movie.

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