AVAILABLE
ON DVD & BLU-RAY, 4th APRIL 2016
Fresh off her career defining roles for Jack Hill in
Coffy and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier continued her domination of the Blaxploitation genre, in cult filmmaker
Eddie Romero’s Black Mama, White Mama
released on DVD and Blu-ray from Arrow Video from 4th April 2016.
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.
Special Features
·
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
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Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
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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
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Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips
Specs
Release Date
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Monday 4th April 2016
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Certificate
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15
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Language
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English
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Running Time
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87 mins
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Region
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B
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Audio
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Mono
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Blu-ray Cat Number
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FCD1306
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Arrow Video Official Channels
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