Bloody Mama

Mar 24, 1970

1h 30m

★ 5.5

You gotta' believe... You gotta' have faith... But first, you gotta' get rid of the witnesses!

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

American International Pictures

Bloody Mama Trailers

Cast

'Ma' Kate Barker

Shelley Winters

Sam Adams Pendlebury

Pat Hingle

Herman Barker

Don Stroud

Mona Gibson

Diane Varsi

Kevin Dirkman

Bruce Dern

Arthur Barker

Clint Kimbrough

Lloyd Barker

Robert De Niro

Fred Barker

Robert Walden

George Barker

Alex Nicol

Rembrandt

Pamela Dunlap

Dr. Roth

Michael Fox

Moses

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