Big Bad Mama
Angie Dickinson stars as a bank-robbing matriarch in this 1974  Roger Corman production, often described as a knock-off ofBonnie and Clyde. (As if that makes any difference regarding the worth of the film--which is  pretty good.) Set in Great Depression-era Texas, the story finds Dickinson's desirable and poor character driven to crime, along with her two  daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee), all of whom use sex to distract or drive  men into culpability. The film, directed by Steve Carver, is pure Corman  formula: fast-moving, violent, gritty, adorned with nudity, and yet solidly true  to its own sense of high drama and texture. Veteran Angie Dickinson brings solid acting chops (and a great bod on display) to the enterprise--and speaking ofEnterprise, William Shatner is quite memorable (as is Tom  Skerritt) as one of the gentlemen who fall under the antiheroine's sway.--Tom Keogh