Big Bad Mama

1974

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 3427 3.4K

prohibition era social satire sexploitation gun battle campy comedy

Plot summary

Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.

Director

Steve Carver Photo
Steve Carver

Top cast

William O'Connell Photo
William O'Connell as Crusade Preacher
Noble Willingham Photo
Noble Willingham as Uncle Barney
Sally Kirkland Photo
Sally Kirkland as Barney's Woman
Angie Dickinson Photo
Angie Dickinson as Wilma McClatchie
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773.99 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 3
1.4 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dwremy 5 / 10

A Trashy Classic

This movie is definitely one of the standouts when discussing 70s sexploitation...a very entertaining 30s rural gangster film; sex and violence at its best. Accept the film as trashy fun and you'll be fine.
Reviewed by bensonmum2 7 / 10

Trashy Fun

Wilma McClatchie (Angie Dickinson) wants more for her two daughters than depression era Texas can provide. With no money to speak of they set off for California to find their fortunes. Along the way, they rob a bank, pick up a bank robber, mug a preacher, steal the take from a racetrack, take on a penniless drifter from Kentucky, kidnap an heiress, and kill a few people. It's just an ordinary cross-county trip.This is one of my favorite of the Roger Corman produced movies. I realize that it's basically trash, but what fun trash it is. Around every turn there's a robbery, a car chase, a gun fight, or someone having sex. These people are ruthless and will do whatever it takes to get the money they desire. Amid the violence, though, the movie is not without it's moments of comedy. The opening wedding service is simply sublime. I actually found myself laughing out loud.The cast that Corman was able to assemble rivals that of the best movies from the 70s. Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, and Dick Miller are wonderfully cast. But my personal favorite is Susan Sennett, playing one of the daughters. As far as I'm concerned, she steals every scene in which she appears. It's a shame she didn't make more movies.
Reviewed by dave13-1 6 / 10

Nude Angie worth the rental

The first Big Bad Mama is a favorite of collectors of celebrity nude scenes - Angie Dickinson has couple - and it's not a bad movie for what it is. It's a quickie Bonnie and Clyde wannabe on a much lower budget and a much shorter shooting schedule. The story is nothing special - Depression era criminals plot a kidnapping which goes predictably bad - but the low budget was well used, the production looks decent enough and Angie, Tom Skerritt and Bill Shatner all contribute solid perfs with little help from a largely illiterate script. Angie looks good and seems to be enjoying herself in a rare bad girl role, and there are enough car chases and shoot-outs to keep the viewer from falling asleep, but don't look for too much in the way of originality here.
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