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Release Date: 1970 Cast: Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro, Pat Hingle, Clint Kimbrough, Robert Walden, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dern, Don Stroud
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Indie, Crime Drama, Family Drama, Action, Action/Adventure, Period piece, Gangster Bloody Mama is a 1970 low budget film very loosely based on the story of Ma Barker. It was directed by Roger Corman and starred Shelley Winters in the title role, depicted as a corrupt mother who encourages and organizes her children's criminality. The film featured an early appearance by a young Robert De Niro as Lloyd Barker. In reality, Ma Barker's involvement in criminality was fairly limited.
In 2008, Bloody Mama was nominated for AFI's Top 10 Gangster Films list.
The film starts as young Kate Barker (Lisa Jill) is brutalized by others, including her father and older brothers.... MORE
Bloody Mama is a 1970 low budget film very loosely based on the story of Ma Barker. It was directed by Roger Corman and starred Shelley Winters in the title role, depicted as a corrupt mother who encourages and organizes her children's criminality. The film featured an early appearance by a young Robert De Niro as Lloyd Barker. In reality, Ma Barker's involvement in criminality was fairly limited.
In 2008, Bloody Mama was nominated for AFI's Top 10 Gangster Films list.
The film starts as young Kate Barker (Lisa Jill) is brutalized by others, including her father and older brothers. Skipping forward 35 years, the middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker (Shelly Winters) brutalizes innocent people and robs banks with her four sons; the pragmatic Arthur (Clint Kimbrough), the sadistic Herman (Don Stroud), the bisexual Fred (Robert Walden), and the loyal, drug-addicted Lloyd (Robert DeNiro). It all begins in the late 1920s when Ma leaves her husband, George, and her Arkansas home and embarks on her own with her four sons on a robbery-murder spree to make her own fortune, while keeping them under a tight leash.
When Herman and Fred are arrested and imprisoned for petty theft charges, Ma takes over LESS
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