Bloody Mama 1970 123movies

Watch: Bloody Mama 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin’ Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion imaginable. The sadistic Herman sleeps with his Ma. When Fred Barker is released from prison, he brings home his cellmate and lover Kevin Dirkman, who also sleeps with Ma, much to Fred’s chagrin. Lloyd Barker is a spaced-out drug addict who sniffs glue if nothing better is around. Ma kidnaps happy-go-lucky millionaire Sam Adams Pendlebury and holds him for ransom. Arthur Barker, Ma’s wallflower son, and Herman’s hooker lady friend Mona Gibson also figure in the story. The bloody finale is virtually choreographed, and a visual stunner. Filmed in the Ozarks..
Plot: 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.
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	5.7/10 Votes: 3,459
	14% | RottenTomatoes
	69/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 67 Popularity: 4.703 | TMDB

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“I’m sure glad I didn’t raise me any girls.”
Trashy gangster picture from Roger Corman about Ma Barker and her criminal sons. It’s very loosely based on the real people. I won’t say it’s uninteresting but it sure isn’t much fun. It’s violent, schlocky, and quite frankly, gross. I didn’t care about anybody in the movie, which made it hard to become invested in the plot. It does have a nice cast, though. Shelly Winters gets a lot of flack for this movie but I thought she was pretty good. Robert De Niro appears in an early role. I missed his name in the credits so when I saw him I couldn’t believe it was really him. Bruce Dern, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, and Scatman Crothers are among the other solid actors in the cast. Like I said, it’s not much fun but it’s worth a look. I did love that corny theme song.

Thrilling exploitation that isn’t afraid to dig a little deeper
“Blood’s thicker than water,” explains Shelley Winters’ pious and psychotic Ma Barker. Based extremely loosely on the exploits of Ma Barker and her sons, who went on a crime spree during the 1920’s and was chased by J. Edgar Hoover’s newly formed F.B.I., director Roger Corman reverses the familiar pre-credits text by stating ‘any similarity to Kate Barker and her sons is intentional.” The truth is that the real Ma Barker had very little to do with the organisation of her family’s criminal activities, but Corman gives her to Shelley Winters who grabs the role and runs away with it. This is a loud, crude, violent film, about a bunch of despicable characters. But Corman does something that is rarely done and delves into the psychology of these gangsters, and, although it’s hardly Freud, comes up with some interesting and uncomfortable answers.

Leaving her home and husband in Arkansas, Ma Barker and her four sons – the towering brute Herman (Don Stroud), the practical Arthur (Clint Kimbrough), the submissive, bisexual Fred (Robert Walden), and the quiet, drug-addled Lloyd (Robert De Niro) – embark on a petty crime spree on the command of Ma. Herman and Fred find themselves locked away for petty theft, and inside, Fred is dominated by the violent Kevin (Bruce Dern), who joins Ma and her boys when they are released from prison. As their notoriety grows, the family kidnap wealthy businessman Sam (Pat Hingle) and hold him for ransom. When the boys start bonding with the father figure, cracks begin to appear in the gang.

On the surface this is just a cheap exploitation film made the master of the quickie, but it has recently received some acclaim for its unorthodox portrayal of its ugly characters. There’s more than a hint of incest that runs throughout the film, conveyed in Ma’s hyper-sexual activity and Herman’s hesitation to leave his mother’s breast. It is also often quite disturbing, as the lengths that Ma will go to in order to protect her sons becomes evident as she drowns an innocent young woman who Lloyd rapes. The performances are noticeably excellent too, especially Winters, who gives Ma a vulnerability in her need to have strong men around her, and Dern, who is creepy as the alpha-male whose sexual preferences is somewhat questionable. This is one of the finest examples of Corman’s skill as a director, using limited resources to create a genre film that still stands out in a crowded marketplace, never ashamed to embrace it’s exploitation roots, but bold enough to dig that little bit deeper.

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Roger Corman
Writer Robert Thom, Don Peters
Actors Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono, Mono (Ryder Sound Services)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Mitchell Camera
Laboratory Cinefx (optical effects), Movielab, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm