Big Bad Mama
Encyclopedia
Big Bad Mama is a 1974 American film produced by Roger Corman
, starring Angie Dickinson
, William Shatner
, and Tom Skerritt
. It was followed by a sequel, Big Bad Mama II, in 1987.
ging business, but it isn't lucrative. She meets up with a bank robber, Fred (Skerritt), who invites her and her daughters in on his next big heist. After meeting a refined-yet-dishonest gambler (Shatner), Wilma recruits him along with Fred and her daughters to kidnap the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom.
will release the title on DVD, packaged as a double feature with Big Bad Mama II as part of the Roger Corman
Cult Classics collection.
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
, starring Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...
, William Shatner
William Shatner
William Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...
, and Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962.-Early life:...
. It was followed by a sequel, Big Bad Mama II, in 1987.
Plot
Wilma McClatchie (Dickinson) takes over her late lover's bootlegRum-running
Rum-running, also known as bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law...
ging business, but it isn't lucrative. She meets up with a bank robber, Fred (Skerritt), who invites her and her daughters in on his next big heist. After meeting a refined-yet-dishonest gambler (Shatner), Wilma recruits him along with Fred and her daughters to kidnap the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom.
DVD release
On December 7, 2010 Shout! FactoryShout! Factory
Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label...
will release the title on DVD, packaged as a double feature with Big Bad Mama II as part of the Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
Cult Classics collection.