Black Mama, White Mama

Black Mama, White Mama (1973)

Chicks in Chains - where they come from this is... Fun!

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.

Date of release
1973-01-19
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (108)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Director
Eddie Romero

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Philippines

Black Mama White Mama, also known as Women in Chains, Hot, Hard and Mean and Chained Women, is a 1973 women in prison film directed by Eddie Romero and starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov. The film has elements of blaxploitation.

Production

The movie was made by Four Associates Ltd., John Ashley and Eddie Romero's company. In December 1972, it was acquired by American International Pictures.

The movie takes its inspiration from the story concept of shackling a black character and a white one together introduced by The Defiant Ones (1958). John Ashley says the movie was originally called Chains of Hate and he bought the treatment from Jonathan Demme for $500.

Pam Grier, who plays Lee Daniels, had done several tropical prison films, including The Big Doll House (1971), its non-sequel follow-up The Big Bird Cage (1972), and Women in Cages (1971).

Margaret Markov, who plays Karen Brent, had appeared in The Hot Box (1972), which was also a Latin American prison film. All of these movies were shot in the Philippines in accordance with their low budgets. Pam Grier and Sid Haig also appear together in another tropical prison film The Big Doll House (1971) and Grier, Haig, Vic Diaz, and Andres Centenera appear together in its non-sequel follow-up The Big Bird Cage (1972), which were also both f…

The movie was made at the same time as The Twilight People.

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