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BLOODY MAMA
U.S., 1970
Directed by Roger Corman
Starring Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro, Bruce Dern
Approx. 90 min. 35mm.
“The family that slays together stays together,” blared the ads of Corman’s thoroughly tasteless gangster movie with stogie-chomping Ma Barker (Shelley Winters) raising a brood of murderers and rapists — including sadistic Bruce Dern, pain-freak Robert Walden, and young, glue-sniffing Robert DeNiro.
Reviews
“The cast is outstanding, dominated by a fierce Shelley Winters, and Corman pulls no punches, delivering a searing Jacobean tragedy of a gangster movie.”
– Time Out
“Sizzling crime melodrama.”
– Howard Thompson, New York Times