Black Mama, White Mama
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| Black Mama, White Mama | |
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 Theatrical release poster. |
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| Directed by | Eddie Romero |
| Produced by | John Ashley Eddie Romero |
| Written by | H.R. Christian Jonathan Demme |
| Starring | Pam Grier Margaret Markov |
| Music by | Harry Betts |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 19, 1972 |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Black Mama, White Mama is a 1972 blaxploitation film, starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, and directed by Eddie Romero.
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[edit] Plot
The action opens in the nameless south seas. Introduced is Lee Daniels (Pam Grier). She's the main squeeze to the island's biggest pimp/drug dealer, and she just ran off with 40 thousand dollars of his money. Also, meet Karen Brent (Margaret Markov), leading member of the local anarchist group out to overthrow The Man. Lee and Karen are two of the newest inmates at an all-woman's penitentiary, a prison run by sexually ambivalent wardens who prowl the cell-blocks looking to dispense pain and pleasure in equal doses to the inmates.
Being the troublemakers that they are, Pam and Karen get thrown into The Oven (topless, of course) to sweat out the day under the blazing sun. It's not too long before the Warden ship the pair off to another facility - where they were stopped in route by a group of Karen's fellow revolutionaries keen to free her. During the big gun battle, things go horribly wrong - the federales get reinforcements, the revoulationaries are driven off and Lee and Karen high tail it out of there - chained together, of course, for maximum inconvenience. So begins their flight across the island, with Karen wanting to get back to overthrowing the government and Lee wants to vamoose the island with her money. After a gratuitous catfight in their bright yellow prison uniforms the two put aside their differences long enough to save their skins.
Meanwhile, hunting the pair is the incomparable Sid Haig, as a displaced cowboy, right down to the western shirts, six shooters, and country music.
[edit] Cast
- Pam Grier — Lee Daniels
- Margaret Markov — Karen Brent
- Sid Haig — Ruben
- Lynn Borden — Matron Densmore
- Zaldy Zschornack — Ernesto
- Laurie Burton — Warden Logan
- Eddie Garcia — Captain Cruz
- Alona Alegre — Juana
- Dindo Fernando — Rocco
- Vic Diaz — Vic Cheng
- Wendy Green — Ronda
- Lotis Key — Jeanette
- Alfonso Carvajal — Galindo
- Bruno Punzalan — Truck driver
- Ricardo Herrero — Luis
[edit] Trivia
- Several Volkswagen Country Buggies are used in the film; these were based on the VW Beetle chassis originally for the Australian market. The Country Buggy was locally produced in the Philippines as the Sakbayan using VW powerplants sourced from either Brazil or Mexico.
- A remake of the 1958 classic The Defiant Ones, with the roles reversed this time around.
