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24 March 1970 (USA)
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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...
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Roger Corman, Anjelica Huston, Sally Kellerman: Governors Awards 2009
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Unpleasant and violent movie with a deranged Shelley Winters reenacting murderous Ma Barker
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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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Shelley Winters was such an extreme method actress that she spent the entire evening before the grave scene at a funeral parlor staring at a real corpse in a coffin convincing herself she was staring at her dead son, in addition to listening to loud opera just before shooting a scene to work herself up emotionally, and throwing a very real wine bottle at Lloyd (Robert De Niro) in order to make him cry.
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Referenced in "Designing Women: Second Time Around (#2.14)" (1988)
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The most colorful epoch of criminality in America during the Depression era is brought to life in this story of a bank-robber family , in a period when any employment, even illegal, was cherished, ambition, money and power originated an interminable cycle of fury and violence. The infamous Ma Barker ( Shelley Winters)'s blood-thirsty gang of the 30s backed by his four rare sons ( Robert De Niro, Robert Walden, Clint, Don Stroud) carry out heists to banks and a crime spree that gets even bigger when she dreams up an abducting plot , its a fast road to ruin. A hooker ( Diane Varsi) appears to be falling for the moronic sibling (Don Stroud as the sadistic mama lover). Later on, they hook up with Robert Walden's (as the homosexual ex-con) prison lover, Bruce Dern. Meanwhile a wealthy businessman ( Pat Hingle) is kidnapped by the grotesques family led by the sadistic mummy. Based on the biography of the violent careers of Ma Barker, named Arizona Clark (1877-1935) and his perverted sons, who roamed the South robbing banks during the Depression as Missouri, Texas, and Florida . They're joined by nefarious criminal Alvin Karpis who doesn't appear at the movie.
This is a perverse stew of murders, pronounced bloodshed, sentimental blood bonding, action , lots of violence and with a bullet-ridden ending . Overacting by Shelley Winters as sex-crazed lady killer and machine-gun toting mother. Imaginative musical score and evocative cinematography by classic cameraman John A Alonzo . Director and producer( along with Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson : American International) Roger Corman skillfully blends extreme violence that was highly controversial and some good scenes action. Good camera work, slick edition and nice 1930s period sets in average budget.
Followed by ¨Big Bad mama¨ (1974) by Steve Carver with Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerrit and ¨Big bad mama II¨ (1988) with Dickinson, Robert Culp and Julie McCullough. And a remake titled ¨Public enemies¨(96) by Mark L Lester with Theresa Russel Eric Roberts, Alyssa Milano and Frank Stallone. Furthermore, ¨The Grisson gang¨ (1971) by Robert Aldrich with Kim Darby and Scott Wilson.