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Before her iconic turn in Coffy, Pam Grier starred alongside Margaret Markov in a grindhouse spin on Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones, fusing the Women in Prison film with the emerging Blaxploitation movement for a riotous romp of bullets, babes and blood! Lee (Grier), a tough prostitute and Karen (Markov), a revolutionary, are admitted to a tough women's prison where almost immediately (after some playful showering that prefigures Porky's) they clash. Packed off to a maximum security prison, their transport is ambushed by Karen's guerrilla friends and the two escape into the Filipino jungle. Chained together and with differing escape plans their clash intensifies as Lee wants to retrieve a stash of stolen cash to get her off the island and Karen wants to re-join her revolutionary group. Escape isn't easy as they come up against a series of obstacles including a corrupt cop, a bounty hunter, a sadistic Drug Lord and guerrillas who threaten to turn everything upside down. Chock full of girl fights, gun battles, nudity and humour, Black Mama White Mama, which was also known as Women in Chains and Hot, Hard and Mean, lives up to all its titles as well as featuring a brilliant Sid Haig (Spider Baby, House of 1000 Corpses) as a cowboy bounty hunter and Lynn Borden (Frogs, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry) as a lesbian guard from a script co-written by Jonathan Demme (Caged Heat) and a score sampled by Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill.

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Bonus Materials

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Commentary by filmmaker Andrew Leavold, director of The Search for Weng Weng
• White Mama - An interview with star Margaret Markov
• Sid's Filipino Adventure - An interview with star Sid Haig
• The Mad Director of Blood Island - A previously unseen archive interview with director Eddie Romero
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips

Press Quotes

Essential women-in-prison action... I highly recommend it.

     —Bloody Disgusting

Black Mama, White Mama became a key reference point for postmodern mash-up artists like Quentin Tarantino and Neveldine/Taylor, but the film's socio-political jungle is not all fun-and-grindhouse games, as Arrow's splendid new Blu-ray demonstrates.

     —Slant Magazine

Black Mama White Mama definitely got the Cadillac treatment here, presentation-wise. Props to Arrow for ensuring movies from every prestige get their due, and not just ones that sit firmly in the mainstream lexicon.

     —Dread Central