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Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.Read moreLess
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
The story
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Shelley Winters'Ma' Kate Barker
Pat HingleSam Adams Pendlebury
Don StroudHerman Barker
Diane VarsiMona Gibson
Bruce DernKevin Dirkman
Clint KimbroughArthur Barker
Robert De NiroLloyd Barker
Robert WaldenFred Barker
Alex NicolGeorge Barker
Pamela DunlapRembrandt
Michael FoxDr. Roth
Scatman CrothersMosesExplore the crew
- Director
- Roger Corman
- Screenplay
- Robert Thom
- Producer
- Roger Corman
- Director of Photography
- John A. Alonzo
- Original Music Composer
- Don Randi
- Editor
- Eve Newman