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Bloody Mama
Film / 1970

Bloody Mama

Directed by Roger Corman
CrimeDrama

★ 5.6/10Audience rating

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era …

The story

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

Cast

Shelley Winters'Ma' Kate Barker Pat HingleSam Adams Pendlebury Don StroudHerman Barker Diane VarsiMona Gibson Bruce DernKevin Dirkman Clint KimbroughArthur Barker Robert De NiroLloyd Barker Robert WaldenFred Barker Alex NicolGeorge Barker Pamela DunlapRembrandt Michael FoxDr. Roth Scatman CrothersMoses
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Stacy HarrisAgent McClellan Lisa LinskyYoung Kate (as Lisa Jill) Steve MitchellSheriff Roy IdomFerry Boat Passenger Drew BonnerBank Customer (uncredited) Ted EcclesVictim (uncredited) Alan HaufrectPrisoner (uncredited) Gura LashleeDaddy (uncredited) Frank SnellFederal Agent (uncredited)

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