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Ma Barker's Killer Brood is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 3 february 1960 with Lurene Tuttle

Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)

Ma Barker's Killer Brood
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Released in USA 3 february 1960
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating55% 2.765632.765632.765632.765632.76563

Ma Barker's Killer Brood is a 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 South and Midwest in the 1930s with a string of kidnappings, robberies, and murders. The gang members also depicted working with other well-known criminals of the era, including John Dillinger (Eric Sinclair), and Baby Face Nelson (Robert Kendall).

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To the horror of her husband, Kate Barker, known as "Ma," teaches her four young sons to steal money from the collection plate in church. Her husband tries to convince her to stop using her sons to commit crimes, but is ignored. Ma expresses her contempt for "sissies" and says that "guts" is the only virtue. Her husband leaves her when their sensitive son Herman is arrested after Ma forces him to rob a fun fair. After this, the local sheriff runs Ma Barker and her boys out of town.

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