Actor(s): Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee
Director(s): Steve Carver
Publisher: New Concorde
Binding: DVD
Language(s): English
EAN: 9786305261322
ISBN: 6305261326
Studio: New Concorde
Movie Description
Angie Dickinson stars as a bank-robbing matriarch in this 1974 Roger Corman production, often described as a knock-off of Bonnie and Clyde. (As if that makes any difference regarding the worth of the film--which is pretty good.) Set in Great Depression-era Texas, the story finds Dickinson's desirable and poor character driven to crime, along with her two daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee), all of whom use sex to distract or drive men into culpability. The film, directed by Steve Carver, is pure Corman formula: fast-moving, violent, gritty, adorned with nudity, and yet solidly true to its own sense of high drama and texture. Veteran Angie Dickinson brings solid acting chops (and a great bod on display) to the enterprise--and speaking of Enterprise, William Shatner is quite memorable (as is Tom Skerritt) as one of the gentlemen who fall under the antiheroine's sway. --Tom Keogh
BIG BAD MAMA has everything necessary for a classic exploitation masterwork! Angie Dickinson is Wilma, trying to raise her two wayward daughters, while living a violent life of crime. Tom Skerritt and William Shatner join up w/ Wilma's outlaw family and rob, kidnap, and kill their way across the country! Just about everyone gets nekkid at some point, in situations that could only exist in 70s cinema! Ms. Dickinson is the highlight, revealing her astonishing anatomy several times, once in a scene I'll never forget as long as I live! Roger Corman knew how to make these films work, utilizing all of the tricks and attention-grabbing elements at his disposal. He was / is a bloody genius! BBM is a shining gem in his crown...
"Good Trash"
Written By: Matthew V. Clemens
Angie Dickinson is gorgeous, William Shatner and Tom Skerritt are cool. The story is better than you might expect in a B-movie, and there's plenty of sex and violence. What more could you ask?
"Grindhouse gangstress"
Written By: Trevor Willsmer
Big Bad Mama is the archetypal Roger Corman 70s b-movie, with the monsters and sci-fi of the 50s and 60s replaced by plentiful low-budget action, tongue-in-cheek humor and mandatory nudity from almost every actress in the cast in a fast-moving Depression-era backroads gangster flick. Angie Dickinson is the Ma Barker figure tryin' to do right by her two gals, stumbling her way from bootlegging to armed robbery to kidnapping with the aid of Tom Skerritt's bank robber and William Shatner's Southern conman (unfortunately the mandatory nudity rule also applies to him, though we are spared the sight of the captain's log). While not as smart as John Sayles' and Jonathan Demme's Corman flicks there are occasional nods to history - not least the resistance of hypocritical establishment figures and the Big Rich to the New Deal, leaving the poor to fend for themselves as best they can - and some mildly anarchic sight gags (watch out for the cripple `healed' by William O'Connell's phoney preacher) but mostly this has few aspirations beyond throwing in as many shootouts, car chases and nude scenes from Ms Dickinson as it can in its 83 running time.
"ANGIE NUDE!!!"
Written By: Robert M. Bonnett
What else is there to say about this movie?!!! This should be re-named "Proud Mama" cause Angie struts her great bod and is proud of it!!!
"As good as I remember"
Written By: James H. Dicken
Not sure why Angie did this one, but it is good, fun and she is absolutely beautiful when she is in bed with William Shatner and the guy from Top Gun (Not Tom Cruise.. his boss at Top Gun)
"70s Exploitation At It's Finest!..."
"Grindhouse gangstress"
"As good as I remember"
