Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Bill Karn

Writer:

F. Paul Hall (writer)

Release Date:

June 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

No. 1 Female Gangster Of All Time!

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.

Plot Keywords:

Ma Barker | 1930s | Robbery | Machine Gun | Murder

Cast

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

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | UK:(Banned)

Company:

Screen Classics Inc.

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.

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.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 10 (2007) (V)

Don't waste your time with this one

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.