Black Mama, White Mama

This female take on The Defiant Ones finds Pam Grier and Margaret Markov’s convicts pitted against the law, and each other.

  • Director

    Eddie Romero

  • With

    Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Vic Diaz

  • USA 1973. 87min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    18

Grier portrays Lee Daniels alongside Markov’s Karen Brent in this cheeky homage to Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958). Racial tensions erupt between Grier and Markov, shackled fugitives on the lam somewhere in a Latin American island republic. As they attempt to escape, the women must first survive each other.

Contains scenes of violence and sexual violence that some viewers may find distressing.