Bloody Mama R
You gotta' believe... You gotta' have faith... But first, you gotta' get rid of the witnesses!
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 23, 2014
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Diane Varsi & Don Stroud | |
Performer: | Robert De Niro, Bruce Dern, Robert Walden, Alex Nicol & Scatman Crothers | |
Directed by | Roger Corman | |
Edited by | Eve Newman | |
Screenplay by | Robert Thom | |
Composition by | Don Randi | |
Story by | Robert Thom & Don Peters | |
Produced by | Roger Corman | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo | |
Executive Production by | Samuel Z. Arkoff & James H. Nicholson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
One of Corman's campiest. Winters is in rare form -- and that's saying something.
eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 2/5 --
Schlocky AIP venture, with Winters hamming it up.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
As BONNIE AND CLYDE mythologized the exploits of the bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, so BLOODY MAMA dramatized the rise and fall of another early 1930s criminal outfit, the Barker Gang.
New York Times
Product Description:
Director Roger Corman pulls no punches in this sordid (and true) saga of Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons, brutal criminals who terrorized America in the 1920s and '30s. Shelley Winters plays Ma with scenery-chewing vigor; the scene in which she holds up a bank with a tommy gun is a peak moment in exploitation cinema. Robert De Niro plays Ma's dope-addicted son Lloyd (in his first major onscreen role). Ma also has a homosexual son named Fred (Robert Walden) whose sadistic lover (Bruce Dern) joins the gang and sleeps with her as well. Don Stroud and Clint Kimborough are the other boys. At Ma's command they rob and murder, but when they kidnap a local politician (Pat Hingle), he turns into the father figure they never had, enabling them to finally stand up to her. Robert Thorn's script doesn't miss a single chance to delve into perversity as it explores this most dysfunctional of families, and it's great to see method actors such as De Niro, Dern, and Winters strutting their stuff with such lurid material. Scatman Crothers plays the handyman who finally reports the Barkers to the feds, leading to the requisite blood-drenched shoot-out.
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- UPC: 738329144128
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