Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)

Directed by

Bill Karn

Genre

drama film, crime film, neo-noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1960 crime drama tells a highly fictionalized story of Ma Barker and her four sons who led a real-life gang in the 1930s. The film shows the family committing kidnappings, robberies, and murders across the South and Midwest, while also working with famous criminals like John Dillinger.

old-fashionedgrimexploitativefast-pacedviolentlow-budgetsensationalized

What happens

Ma Barker's Killer Brood is a 1960 American neo noir crime film, released in 1960. The low-budget film was directed by Bill Karn and starred Lurene Tuttle as the title character, Ma Barker. The film is a highly fictionalized account of the life of Ma Barker and her four sons, whose Barker-Karpis gang terrorized the Southern United States and the Midwestern United States in the 1930s with a string of kidnappings, robberies, and murders. The gang members are also depicted working with other well-known criminals of the era, including John Dillinger (Eric Sinclair), and Baby Face Nelson (Robert Kendall). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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