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29 January 1976 (Norway) moreTagline:
Men, Money And Moonshine: When It Comes To Vice, Mama Knows Best. morePlot:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
The archetypal 70s Roger Corman drive-in movie moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Angie Dickinson | ... | Wilma McClatchie | |
| William Shatner | ... | William J. Baxter | |
| Tom Skerritt | ... | Fred Diller | |
| Susan Sennett | ... | Billy Jean | |
| Robbie Lee | ... | Polly | |
| Noble Willingham | ... | Uncle Barney | |
| Dick Miller | ... | Bonney | |
| Tom Signorelli | ... | Dodds | |
| Joan Prather | ... | Jane Kingston | |
| Royal Dano | ... | Reverend Johnson | |
| William O'Connell | ... | Crusade Preacher | |
| John Wheeler | ... | Lawyer | |
| Ralph James | ... | Sheriff | |
| Sally Kirkland | ... | Barney's Woman | |
| Wally K. Berns | ... | Legionnaire (as Wally Berns) |
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Canada:R | UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | France:-12 | Finland:K-18 | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Netherlands:16 | Iceland:16Fun Stuff
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Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead performed most of the guitar and banjo music in the movie. moreQuotes:
Jane Kingston: [Jane is tied up and Fred proceeds to grope her]Jane Kingston: What are you doing?
Fred Diller: I just, uh, never felt the titties of a millionaire before.
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Big Bad Mama is the archetypal Roger Corman 70s b-movie, with the monsters and sci-fi of the 50s and 60s replaced by plentiful low-budget action, tongue-in-cheek humor and mandatory nudity from almost every actress in the cast in a fast-moving Depression-era backroads gangster flick. Angie Dickinson is the Ma Barker figure trying' to do right by her two gals, stumbling her way from bootlegging to armed robbery to kidnapping with the aid of Tom Skerritt's bank robber and William Shatner's Southern conman (unfortunately the mandatory nudity rule also applies to him, though we are spared the sight of the captain's log). While not as smart as John Sayles' and Jonathan Demme's Corman flicks there are occasional nods to history not least the resistance of hypocritical establishment figures and the Big Rich to the New Deal, leaving the poor to fend for themselves as best they can and some mildly anarchic sight gags (watch out for the cripple 'healed' by William O'Connell's phoney preacher) but mostly this has few aspirations beyond throwing in as many shootouts, car chases and nude scenes from Ms Dickinson as it can in its 83 running time.