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The action opens in the nameless south seas. Meet Lee Daniels (played by 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 hell hole ran by sexually ambivalent wardens who prowl the cell-blocks looking to dispense pain and pleasure in equal doses to the inmates. Of course being a Women In Prision flick, we're not 10 minutes into the film before we get at least one good ogle at all the leading ladies naughty bits in a communal shower sequence. |
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Lee Daniels (portrayed by Pam Grier), a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing them together. Chained to her bitter rival, white revolutionary Karen Brent (portrayed by Margaret Markov), Lee finds herself literally linked to the revolutionary cause, and on the fly, when Karen's guerilla friends stage a coup. But Lee has a cause of her own in the form of a secret stash of cash and a getaway boat. Brawling with her white counterpart over which way to go, she's got to make her escape, before both mamas' enemies bring them down. |
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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 miniskirts - er, prison uniforms -- the two put aside their differences long enough to save their skins. |
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Meanwhile, hunting the pair is the incomparable Sid Haig, as a displaced cowboy, right down to the western shirts, six shooters, and country music. |
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===Cast=== |
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Revision as of 04:44, 3 December 2007
| Black Mama, White Mama | |
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 Theatrical release poster. | |
| Directed by | Eddie Romero |
| Written by | H.R. Christian Jonathan Demme |
| Produced by | John Ashley Eddie Romero |
| Starring | Pam Grier Margaret Markov |
| Music by | Harry Betts |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release dates | January 19, 1972 |
Running time | 87 minutes |
| Language | English |
Black Mama, White Mama is a 1972 blaxploitation film, starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, and directed by Eddie Romero.
Plot
The action opens in the nameless south seas. Meet Lee Daniels (played by 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 hell hole ran by sexually ambivalent wardens who prowl the cell-blocks looking to dispense pain and pleasure in equal doses to the inmates. Of course being a Women In Prision flick, we're not 10 minutes into the film before we get at least one good ogle at all the leading ladies naughty bits in a communal shower sequence.
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 miniskirts - er, 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.
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
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.