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Director:
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Don Peters (story)
Robert Thom (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 March 1970 (USA) more
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A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era... more | add synopsis
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Extreme Close Up: The Barker Family more (28 total)

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Runtime:
90 min
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Finland:K-18 (cut) (1972) | UK:X | France:-18 | Italy:VM14 | West Germany:18 | France:-12 (re-rating) | UK:18 (uncut version, re-rating) | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | UK:18 (cut)
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Shelley Winters previously played a character that spoofed "Ma" Barker. On the TV series "Batman" (1966), she played "Ma" PARKER in a couple of episodes as a guest star. more
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Extreme Close Up: The Barker Family, 9 August 2004
Author: narnerbee from US of A

This was definitely an exploitation film through and through! Shelly Winters and a supporting cast of a-list actors, and an unknown Bobby De Niro, taking girls, and men, killing, trashing, raping, kidnapping, and torture! Definitely worth the time, if you don't mind the subject matter. Here we are getting an in-depth look at the Barker family, led by a crazy Winters. We are introduced to these, "people" as a family, but they behave more on the line of animals. Early on, chances split the loving team up, in several different ways, but always, a family sticks together by and by. The family allow a few newbies into the team, a whore, and a homosexual jailmate. This equals chaos, and not the good sense for dearest mommie Winters. Slowly the psych of the whole gang is driven to madness and rage! They always said the truth hurts, and in this case, it really does. I don't know if Corman was going for shock or laughs, but he delivers both, and, I think, in the appropriate times too. Be it psychological, or just plain rage, this one takes it to the very end, or goes for broke...you decide!

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