| Black Mama White Mama | |
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| Directed by | Eddie Romero |
| Screenplay by | H.R. Christian |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Justo Paulino |
| Edited by | Asagani V. Pastor |
| Music by | Harry Betts |
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | US$200,000[1] |
| Box office | US$1 million (US and Canada rentals)[2][3] |
Black Mama White Mama, also known as Women in Chains (US reissue title), Hot, Hard and Mean (original 1974 UK title) and Chained Women (1977 UK reissue title), is a 1973 women in prison film directed by Eddie Romero and starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov. The film has elements of blaxploitation.[4]
The movie was reportedly inspired by the 1958 film The Defiant Ones in which Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis are shackled together similarly to Grier and Markov. Set in an unspecified Latin American country (referred to only as "the island"), the movie was shot in the Philippines for budgetary purposes.[5]
- ^ Lamont, John (1990). "The John Ashley Filmography". Trash Compactor (Volume 2 No. 5 ed.). p. 26.
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, January 9, 1974, p. 60
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-8357-1776-2.
- ^ "Black Mama, White Mama". Dvdtalk.com. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
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