You gotta' believe... You gotta' have faith... But first, you gotta' get rid of the witnesses!
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.
- Sexual violence
- Harm to children
- Suicide or self-harm
- Bleak ending
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Cast
- 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
Crew
- Roger CormanDirector
- Robert ThomScreenplay
- John A. AlonzoDirector of Photography
- Don RandiOriginal Music Composer
- Eve NewmanEditor
- Roger CormanProducer
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