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Thu, Dec 29, 2005
Big Bad Mama - Special Edition
The Movie
Generally considered one of Roger Corman's finest productions, 1974's Big Bad Mama might be not much more than Bonnie & Clyde with a lot more nudity and a lot less sense ... but I'd be lying if I said this colorful ol' piece of camp doesn't have some real and lasting appeal. It's silly and simple and even a little mindless, but Big Bad Mama still stands up as good, clean B-movie fun. (Except for all the murders, kidnappings, and statutory rape, that is.)
Angie Dickinson is a whole lot of fun in the titular role, that of a Depression-era, tommy-gun-wielding matriarch of two ever-gigglin' teenage girls and overseer of a patchwork crime gang. After ruining her daughter's wedding and running afoul of two FBI agents, Wilma McClatchie is well on her way to becoming Public Enemy #1. From bank robberies to oil field heists and one ill-devised kidnapping, Ma... Read the entire review
Big Bad Mama - Special Edition