Black Mama White Mama (1973)
A classic prison, Filipino, gangster, revolutionary movie. A film starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov. Set during the time that the Marcos Dynasty launched Martial Law in the Philippines, the film is about a black prostitute and a white revolutionary who must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.
Riff Material includes:
- A premise loosely inspired by The Defiant Ones (1958)
- Jeeps going through rivers
- Brent (Markov) goes commando to throw off scent dogs
Trivia: Pam almost died during the production of this film. She was bedridden for a month, with a fever at times of 105F.
Full notice! If riffed as well as other early films starring Pam Grier, it may have to be released as a MP3 file. Nude scenes are on default in Pam's early films. The reason? Pam Grier told The Rolling Stone she chose to be nude in many of her early films because she wanted to push the limits of how Black women were perceived in the acting world. She said, "I call it the 'Brown Nipple Revolution.' We weren't the epitome of sexual attraction for the male audience, in movies, magazines, anything. We were told our brown nipples weren't attractive. I was trying to break that line of what was acceptable in society."
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