Bloody mom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bloody mom |
| Original title | Bloody mom |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Corman |
| script | Robert Thom |
| production | Roger Corman |
| music | Don Randi |
| camera | John A. Alonzo |
| cut | Eve Newman |
| occupation | |
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Bloody Mama is an American drama from 1970 directed by Roger Corman . The film is based on a story by Robert Thom and Don Peters and is based on the acts of a gang of criminals led by Ma Barker .
action
Ma Barker, raped by her brothers at the age of 7, demands absolute obedience from her four sons. Herman is a sadist, Lloyd uses drugs, Fred is gay and Arthur is very reserved. During the Depression in the late 1920s, Ma Barker and her sons left husband George to pursue a criminal career.
During a raid on a ferry, Herman loses control and beats one of the passengers to death. To calm himself down, Herman sleeps with a prostitute. After another robbery, Fred and Herman are arrested. In prison, Fred succumbs to the advances of Kevin Dirkman, who becomes a lover of Ma Barker after his release.
Herman brings his mistress, the prostitute Mona, into the group, which meets Ma Barker's protest. After Lloyd raped the young Rembrandt, Ma, Kevin and Herman drown the victim in a bathtub. The gang kidnaps millionaire Sam Adams Pendlebury. Although the ransom is paid, Ma Barker wants to have the kidnapped man murdered. But their sons let the man go free.
Herman becomes the leader of the group. In their hiding place on Lake Weir, Florida, Herman and Kevin inadvertently reveal their whereabouts to the police when they shoot an alligator. The police surround the area, the Barkers want to shoot their way free. But all gang members are killed, Ma Barker last.
Reviews
"The description of an uncompromising gangster life shows a socially hostile state of consciousness as a compulsory product of an exploitative and violence-loving society and underlines the historically guaranteed main character with mythologizing intentions inappropriately social-revolutionary traits."
"The story is a loose combination of a chain of macabre vignettes, with an emphasis on dramatic climaxes but very weak character development or motivation."
background
The film premiered on March 24, 1970 in the United States. Almost a year later, on March 18, 1971, it was also shown in German cinemas.
The film was shot in Mountain Home and Little Rock in the US state of Arkansas .
The film does not tell the real life story of Ma Barker, who lived from 1873 to 1935. So there was B. no historical Kevin Dirkman. Rather, the film character is a combination of different gang members. Especially Alvin Karpis , the real cellmate of Fred Barker, is portrayed by the character of Kevin Dirkman. The showdown at the end of the film does not correspond to the real events. In the cabin on Lake Weir, Ma Barker and her son Fred were shot dead by FBI officials on January 16, 1935 . Herman committed suicide as early as 1927. The film character of Sam Adams Pendlebury is based on the banker Edward Bremer, who was kidnapped by the gang in 1933 and released on payment of 200,000 US dollars.
Shelley Winters played a similar role in the 1966 television series Batman . She portrayed Ma Parker in two episodes .
Web links
- Bloody Mama in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bloody Mama in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Story is a loosely-connected string of macabre vignettes, with an emphasis on dramatic peaks but very little character development or motivation." - Critique of Variety ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 1, 2011.
literature
- Robert Zion: Roger Corman. The rebellion of the immediate . 320 pp., Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7481-0101-7 , pp. 195–203.