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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Don Peters (story)
Robert Thom (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 March 1970 (USA) more
Tagline:
Say it with bullets! more
Plot:
A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era... more | add synopsis
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Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
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Shelley Winters: 1920-2006
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Violent Fun more (28 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Shelley Winters | ... | Kate 'Ma' Barker |
 | Pat Hingle | ... | Sam Adams Pendlebury |
| Don Stroud | ... | Herman Barker |
| Diane Varsi | ... | Mona Gibson |
| Bruce Dern | ... | Kevin Dirkman |
| Clint Kimbrough | ... | Arthur Barker |
 | Robert De Niro | ... | Lloyd Barker |
| Robert Walden | ... | Fred Barker |
| Alex Nicol | ... | George Barker |
 | Pamela Dunlap | ... | Rembrandt |
| Michael Fox | ... | Dr. Roth |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Moses (as 'Scatman' Crothers) |
| Stacy Harris | ... | Agent McClellan |
 | Lisa Jill | ... | Young Kate |
| Steve Mitchell | ... | Sheriff |
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90 min
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Finland:K-18 (cut) (1972) | UK:X | France:-18 | Italy:VM14 | West Germany:18 | France:-12 (re-rating) | UK:18 (uncut version, re-rating) | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | UK:18 (cut)
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Bruce Dern's character of Dirkman is a combination of several Barker Gang members, most notably Alvin Carpis, who was a cellmate of Freddie Barker and the primary member of the gang (outside of the family). more
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Referenced in "Designing Women: Second Time Around (#2.14)" (1988) more
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A gleefully trashy Corman cheapie, with Shelley Winters as the sex-crazed head of a family of criminals. Very bloody and perverse, yet strangely campy, and with good support from Bruce Dern, Robert DeNiro and Don Stroud, in a brilliantly sadistic role. Add to this Winters' fascinatingly overblown performance and you have a classic. Based on a true story, but you'd never guess.