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Black Mama, White Mama

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Black Mama, White Mama	comment	Black Mama, White Mama is a 1973 Exploitation Film from American International Pictures, starting as a Girls Behind Bars film and then following the escape of two prisoners and the ensuing womanhunt. It stars Pam Grier as Lee Daniels and Margaret Markov as Karen Brent. Lee robs Vic, her big shot drug dealer/pimp/boyfriend, and ends up in jail. Meanwhile, revolutionary Karen is arrested for smuggling weapons for the guerilla. The pair escape and don't get along at first (especially since they are chained together but want to go in opposite directions). Later they do.While the movie has a classic plot about hunted fugitives being hunted by corrupt officials and various criminals, and has plenty of action scenes, it also excels in various kinds of Fanservice, with lots of nudity.Pam Grier and Margaret Markov teamed up again in the following year's The Arena (for New World Pictures), which also involved action, fanservice and breaking out of captivity.The story was co-written by a young Roger Corman protege named Jonathan Demme.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: In the climactic shoot-out between the guerillas and Vic's goons, Karen is shot in the chest and killed.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
Black Mama, White Mama / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: As a punishment for getting into a fight during dinner, Lee and Karen are stripped to the waist and put into a metal box in the prison yard.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_1eb49c19	type	Stripperiffic
Black Mama, White Mama / int_1eb49c19	comment	Stripperiffic: The prison uniforms basically consist of oversized T-shirts and underwear. This leads to frequent panty shots and makes Karen's lack of a bra very obvious.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_1ec8456b	comment	Vulnerable Convoy: The convoy transporting Lee and Karen to a different prison is attacked by Karen's guerilla group. The attack is repulsed when reinforcements arrive, but Lee and Karen manage to escape during the gunfight.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: Lee and Karen are handcuffed together when they are transported to a different prison. They manage to escape, but are still chained together, which complicates matters since they not only can't stand each other, but want to go in opposite directions.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Black Mama, White Mama / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Vic subjects one of his prostitutes to this to extract information about where Lee is heading. Par for the course in this movie, the girl's stripped down to the waist and the electrodes are placed just below her breasts. Somewhat surprisingly for the genre, she actually manages to convince Vic that she doesn't know anything and he lets her go.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Black Mama, White Mama / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Karen is very obviously braless under her thin prison outfit. Then she sacrifices her panties to create a false track for the dogs used to find her and Lee... The cut of the red dress Lee is wearing at the beginning of the film makes it impossible for her to wear a bra.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_3541b2da	type	Jiggle Show
Black Mama, White Mama / int_3541b2da	comment	Jiggle Show: The many scenes with topless and braless women provide ample examples of bouncing breasts, especially with the well-endowed Pam Grier. Even in the scenes where she is wearing a bra, it's loose enough to allow her breasts to jiggle independently of each other, in a way that's usually only seen in certain types of animated movies.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_486b2b4c	type	Girls Behind Bars
Black Mama, White Mama / int_486b2b4c	comment	Girls Behind Bars: The depiction of the women's prison is a classic male fantasy, with beautiful, scantily-clad inmates, lots of Les Yay, and openly lesbian, sadistic staff.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
Black Mama, White Mama / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Lee has a lot of attitude, takes no disrespect from anybody, and talks back a lot.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Black Mama, White Mama / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil Local crime lord Ruben, who is promised a reward by the officials to capture Karen, presents the image of a jovial, country music loving cowboy. He is clearly supposed to be way past the Moral Event Horizon, but actor Sid Haig is obviously having way too much fun to be truly hate-worthy. Vic, drug kingpin, pimp, as well as Lee's former boyfriend, is soft-spoken and treats his subordinates nicely enough - once he's done torturing them. Matron Densmore, who is initially shown as being an abusive tyrant towards the prisoners, becomes this when trying to trade preferential treatment for sexual favours from Lee (which Lee refuses).
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_59aa1d0b	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Black Mama, White Mama / int_59aa1d0b	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: The Defiant Ones WITH WOMEN! Except one of them evades capture, while the other... doesn't.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Black Mama, White Mama / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Matron Densmore appears to be not quite mentally stable, switching between abusive behavior towards the prisoners, masturbating while spying on them in the shower, and attempting to seduce them. All this despite apparently being in a relationship with her colleague.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_5a1819b7	type	Panty Shot
Black Mama, White Mama / int_5a1819b7	comment	Throughout the movie, there are many shots of naked and topless women, and braless breasts under thin shirts, as well as panty shots.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
Black Mama, White Mama / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: Averted, with many topless scenes. There is no attempt to avoid showing women's nipples. Well, this is an exploitation movie.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
Black Mama, White Mama / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Karen Brent. She says to Lee that she's always had plenty of money, but it never did anything for her. Now she's working with the guerillas to liberate the island.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Black Mama, White Mama / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: After arriving in prison, the new inmates are stripped and made to shower. The scene is shot with loving attention to detail and a notable absence of SceneryCensors.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_8c00d310	type	Three-Way Sex
Black Mama, White Mama / int_8c00d310	comment	Threeway Sex: Ruben, a drug lord, has sex with two sisters (without any explicit stuff).
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
Black Mama, White Mama / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Matron Densmore is shown to have a peep hole which lets her look into the prison shower, which she does while the prisoners are playfully horsing around naked, masturbating while watching them.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_aef4525b	type	Skinship Grope
Black Mama, White Mama / int_aef4525b	comment	Skinship Grope: Some of the prisoners engage in some playful wrestling in the shower. The scene of naked women groping each other is of course played for Fanservice.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Black Mama, White Mama / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: The lead female characters Lee and Karen both provide lots of fanservice. Both of them are very good-looking, appear bare-breasted, and spend nearly the entire film in very skimpy prison wear which makes it clear Karen doesn't wear a bra, along with panty shots whenever they bend.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Black Mama, White Mama / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: When the truck driver that Lee and Karen are getting a lift from gets suspicious, they hit him on the head with a bottle, dump him out of the truck, and drive on. He comes to a few seconds later, seemingly no worse from the experience.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_b9a22821	type	Jive Turkey
Black Mama, White Mama / int_b9a22821	comment	Jive Turkey: Lee, to some extent (it is a 1970s exploitation movie, after all), but rather toned down.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Black Mama, White Mama / int_c4240537	comment	Local crime lord Ruben, who is promised a reward by the officials to capture Karen, presents the image of a jovial, country music loving cowboy. He is clearly supposed to be way past the Moral Event Horizon, but actor Sid Haig is obviously having way too much fun to be truly hate-worthy.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_d7c81cd3	type	Exploitation Film
Black Mama, White Mama / int_d7c81cd3	comment	Exploitation Film: The movie is an action movie about escaping from prison and the following womanhunt, but the directors took every chance they got of showing naked or topless women - and there were plenty of those.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Black Mama, White Mama / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Both Lee and Karen show quite a lot of fighting skills during their escape.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Black Mama, White Mama / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: While in prison, Lee and Karen get into several cat fights with each other and their inmates. After their escape, they fall out and exchange some catty blows, but soon have to concentrate on survival (and the fights they get into after that are of a much deadlier nature).
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Black Mama, White Mama / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: After escaping from a convict transport, Lee and Karen waylay a pair of nuns, rob them of their habits, and put them on on top of their bright-yellow prison clothes.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Black Mama, White Mama / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: The newly arrived prisoners are given numbered tags and told that "these numbers are your new names. Make sure you don't lose them". The numbers are never mentioned again, however, and the prisoners are addressed by surnames by the guards.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_ebe34da1	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: The guerillas Karen are helping are portrayed as good guys, but it is never shown what exactly they are fighting for or against. They are just generic revolutionaries, with a Che Guevara-like leader.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
Black Mama, White Mama / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: Obviously, one of the selling points of the movie. Numerous minor female characters get fully or partly naked, plus in titillating situations. One of the first scenes in prison is a long shower scene ("Okay, strip 'em and get 'em wet!") where we get a lot of close-ups of the prisoner's breasts. Some of the women even play with a water hose in the shower. Most of the prison scenes are of the male fantasy variety, with scantily-clad inmates, lots of lesbian innuendo between said inmates, and blatantly lesbian domination from Matron Densmore. Throughout the movie, there are many shots of naked and topless women, and braless breasts under thin shirts, as well as panty shots. Drug lord Ruben gets into a (non-explicit) threesome with two sisters, who are both quite attractive and shown in only underwear at length.
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Black Mama, White Mama / int_fdf7d23d	comment	Lady in Red: The red dress Lee wears in the beginning of the film (before she changes into prison garb) has both a plunging neckline and a bare back.
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