Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)
1960 · Feature film · 82 min · dir. Bill Karn
No. 1 Female Gangster Of All Time!
- Crime
- Drama
Synopsis
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Bill Karn
- Writer
- F. Paul Hall
- Composer
- Gene Kauer
- Cinematography
- Clark Ramsey
- Studio
- Screen Classics (II)
- Released
- 1960-02-03
- Running time
- 82 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Feature Films
Cast & crew
- Bill Karn Director
Lurene Tuttle
Tristram Coffin
Paul Dubov
Nelson Leigh
Myrna Dell
Victor Lundin
Don Grady- Roye Baker
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · 1950's Juvenile Delinquents Meet The 1930's! · DJ Psychomike · 2009-03-08
If you are reading these reviews to decide whether you should watch this film let me assure you that this one is a must see. Plays re-set the locale all the time, not so much in film. Here we have a depression era gangster group- yet all the kids talk like 1950's delinquents. Shelley Winters and Roger Corman had to have watched this film before they made BLOODY MAMA, and the lines in this movie from Ma Barker are priceless. Yep, it is violent. It is sleezy. It is even silly. But it's a great ride, too! Pop some popcorn, grab a beer, you are gonna like this!
★★★ · Trivia · richy24 · 2010-10-17
So that's what Don Grady (oldest son at beginning) did during the filming break on the TV series "My Three Sons". Now, I want to look up the history of the gang.
★★★ · the real ma barker. · batatari · 2012-02-16
This movie is fun to watch. But the real ma barker really never did any of this stuff. And the barkers never met any of the other 30's superstar crooks As this movie tells it. And why did'nt they put in Bonnie and Cylde? And the depression did'nt really start until 1929 not 1927. But the movie is a hoot for the lovers of cheap movies. Come on the armored car was from the 1950's not the 1930's
★★ · obey your Mother, or else! · slugs and urchins · 2008-06-13
The acting was flat and plodding, but not the worst movie I've seen. The best part was the ballad of Little Joe at the Barker's party. It's pretty much a dud after that...
