Mama's Dirty Girls
1974 film by John Hayes
- August 1974 (1974-08)
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Mama's Dirty Girls is a 1974 exploitation film starring Gloria Grahame and Candice Rialson about a woman and her three daughters who murder men for money.
Plot
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenage daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon they meet Harold and he's got other plans.
Cast
- Gloria Grahame - Mama Love
- Paul Lambert - Harold
- Sondra Currie - Addie
- Candice Rialson - Becky
- Mary Stoddard - Cindy
- Christopher Wines - Sheriff
- Anneka De Lorenzo - Charity
Reception
Diabolique magazine said "The acting is fine and it’s a great concept... but the movie is never as much fun as you want it to be. They didn’t quite get the story right – the pace is too slow, unlike Big Bad Mama where there’s lots of action, here it’s mostly hanging around houses, and there’s no driving narrative. Also, who wants to watch a three girls film where the guys triumph?"[1]
In a contemporary review for the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Hunt "lamented Gloria Grahame’s participation in Mama’s Dirty Girls, recalling her past successes as a “top film star,” including an Academy Award for her supporting role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Though Hunt criticized the film as a “tawdry trifle,” he asserted that Grahame's performance was sometimes impressive."[2]
See also
References
External links
- Mama's Dirty Girls at IMDb
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