Black Mama White Mama (1972)

Original title

Black Mama, White Mama

Directed by

Eddie Romero

Genre

action film, women in prison film, prison film, blaxploitation film, sexploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

16

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 103 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two women from different backgrounds are chained together and escape from a brutal prison on a tropical island. They must cooperate to evade the guards and a local gangster.

grungyexploitation-stylepacycampygrittydefiantfunkyover-the-top

What happens

Black Mama White Mama, also known as Women in Chains (US reissue title), Hot, Hard and Mean (original 1974 UK title) and Chained Women (1977 UK reissue title), is a 1973 women in prison film directed by Eddie Romero and starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov. The film has elements of blaxploitation. The movie was reportedly inspired by the 1958 film The Defiant Ones. Set in an unspecified Latin American country referred to only as "the island", the movie was shot in the Philippines for budgetary purposes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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