Angie Dickinson
Latest Update News About Angie Dickinson. Regis philbin, regis, kelly ripa, regis and kelly, live with regis and kelly. A 1974 Roger Corman production now available in a definitive new DVD edition, “Big Bad Mama” is 
infamous for its topless and even full-frontal unveiling of fortysomething Angie Dickinson, who apparently was a fan of the idea that if you got it, flaunt it, even if flaunting it means romping on a bed with a similarly undraped if somewhat less fit William Shatner.
In fact, all the significant women characters in “Big Bad Mama” disrobe, as do many of the female stars in the rest of the Corman lady-gangster pictures of the 1970s and beyond.
But even as they entertained drive-in audiences, these movies exposed more than skin: They essentially pantsed Uncle Sam, organized religion, law enforcement, big business and patriarchal society in general. These were exploitation movies about exploitation, with strong, self-made heroines driven to drop their drawers and pick up a gun in reaction to a harsh economy and the heartless men who controlled it.
The tension between the noble character motivation of the script and the sleazy requirements of the exploitation marketplace resulted in productions that remain lively, surprising and provocative. Not to mention historical: The films exposed moviegoers for almost the first time to the talents of screenwriter John Sayles, director Jonathan Demme and composer James Horner.
Some of the best of these movies are now available in new, bonus-packed DVD editions on the Shout! Factory label, as part of the company’s ongoing — and beautifully produced — “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics” collection. (Visit shoutfactory.com.)
The first of these single-disc double-feature DVDs pairs “Big Bad Mama” with its remake-marketed-as-a-sequel, “Big Bad Mama II” (1987), starring a 56-year-old Dickinson (who this time keeps her clothes on). The other double-feature disc teams Demme’s second movie as a director, “Crazy Mama” (1975), with the Sayles-scripted “The Lady in Red” (1979), with Robert Conrad as John Dillinger.
These period crime-spree pictures were inspired by the success of “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) and “Bloody Mama” (1970), which was one of the last films directed by Corman, who became less an auteur and more a mini-mogul in the 1970s when he founded New World Pictures as an exploitation rival to his old employer, American-International Pictures.
Whether the emphasis was horror (“Piranha”), science fiction (“Death Race 2000″), action (“Eat My Dust”) or sex (“The Student Nurse”), a New World release typically was as comic as it was risque or violent; social satire and a celebration of kitschy Americana were as likely to be in the mix as car crashes, bullet squibs and bare breasts. The irreverent attitude and freewheeling freshness compensated for the low budgets.
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