Bloody Mama

Name: Bloody Mama
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: March 24, 1970
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Alex Nicol, Bruce Dern, Clint Kimbrough, Diane Varsi, Don Stroud

1970

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American International Pictures (AIP) | Release Date: March 24, 1970 | TV-MA

Starring: Alex Nicol, Bruce Dern, Clint Kimbrough, Diane Varsi, Don Stroud, Pamela Dunlap, Pat Hingle, Robert De Niro, Robert Walden, Shelley Winters

Summary: A psychologically-disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.

Director: Roger Corman

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 90 min

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Despite such sleazy subject matter, the cast is outstanding, dominated by a fierce Shelley Winters, and Corman pulls no punches, delivering a searing Jacobean tragedy of a gangster movie. Read full review

Howard Thompson

What hoists the picture into real substance toward the home stretch is an eerie and fascinating by credible sequence with the Barker clan holding as captive a blindfolded millionaire, strongly played by Pat Hingle. Read full review

Kim Newman

A lurid gothic gangster psychodrama from Roger Corman, this is Shelley Winters’ finest hour-and-a-half, cast as Arizona Clark ‘Ma’ Barker, a role it would be impossible to overplay. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The best performance in the film, and one of the most outstanding screen portrayals in many moons, is that of Pat Hingle, playing a wealthy businessman kidnapped for high ransom. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Roger Corman's 1970 retelling of the story of Ma Barker and her three loony sons in Depression-era America is completely out of control, but the smash-and-grab stylistics are exhilarating. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

It's fun for awhile, but soon the sheer lunacy of it all wears thin as Corman keeps trying to top himself. Read full review

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