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| Bloody Mama |
Shelley Winters is the rampant Ma Barker in Roger Corman's low-budget sensationalist B-pic about the squalid, depression-era matron and her gang of thugs (a role she would later parody in Tim Burton's
Batman).
Writer Robert Thom (who also penned Corman's cult classic
Wild in the Streets) mixes gangster action elements with pulp psychoanalysis in this heady brew of robberies, kidnappings, murders and implied incest.
Recommended by Winters for the part, De Niro made quite an impression as the psychotic drug-abusing Lloyd, reportedly starving himself for the role in his first major foray into 'becoming' the character.
