Bloody Mama

The young girl here is Lisa Jill, her comments perhaps voiced by Shelley Winters, who plays the character she’ll grow up to be, in what amounts to an origin myth for Kate “Ma” Barker, custom title song by Don Randi, Al Simms and Bob Silver, in Roger Corman’s outrageous Bloody Mama, 1970.

Original trailer with twisted content right up front, and commentary resembling critical praise for producer-director Roger Corman, for Bloody Mama, 1970, from American International Pictures, with Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro and Bruce Dern.

Her boys (Robert Walden, Robert De Niro, Clint Kimbrough as Fred, Lloyd and Arthur, led by Don Stroud as eldest Herman) have just committed an unnecessary murder, which Shelley Winters as “Ma” Barker rationalizes, before resuming quasi-historical narration, in Bloody Mama, 1970.

Two of her boys jailed, in Arkansas ca. 1930, Kate “Ma” Barker (Shelley Winters) decides to stage a bank job with the two she has handy, Robert De Niro as Lloyd, Clint Kimbrough as Arthur, in director Roger Corman’s Bloody Mama, 1970, from American International Pictures.

With more narration from Shelley Winters as title-character Kate “Ma” Barker, we join her jailed son Fred (Robert Walden) and kinky cellmate Dirkman (Bruce Dern), his character based on the actual Barker crony Alvin Karpis, in Bloody Mama, 1970, from Roger Corman and AIP.