Public Enemies
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- The Matriarch Of Crime | Based On Kate
Fans of The Untouchables, the seminal Arthur Penn's Bonnie And Clyde and Shelley Winters in Bloody Mama cannot miss this biographical 1930s gangsters crime drama, based on the real life of the notorious Depression-era outlaw Kate "Ma" Barker (Theresa Russell), and her criminal sons.
The story follows Kate’s life from her abusive childhood through her marriage to George Barker and her subsequent transformation into the matriarch of a violent gang that robbed banks and terrorized the Midwest in the 1930s. During this time the gang associated with other infamous criminals like Alvin Karpis (Frank Stallone), until FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Dan Cortese), started his ultimate pursuit under the newly formed Bureau of Investigation led by J. Edgar Hoover.
Directed by veteran action/genre filmmaker Mark L. Lester, known for Commando and Class Of 1984, ), the film's features recognizable talent like Theresa Russell, Eric Roberts, and a young James Marsden. The production, filmed in Oklahoma, leveraged the historical setting of the 1930s Gangster Era, but was primarily a sensationalized take on a historical figure, prioritizing action and melodrama over historical accuracy or cinematic grandeur—a common trait for non-major studio genre pictures of the time.
Public Enemies (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Based On Real Events
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