This mindless, thoroughly tasteless violence film begins in 1932 when police shoot Leachman's criminal father to death and drive her and her mother off their sharecropping farm in Jerusalem, Arkansas. A flash-forward finds the two females being kicked out of their sleazy beauty parlor in
Long Beach, California, for failing to pay rent. Leachman collects mother Sothern and daughter Purl, and they embark on a nationwide crime spree, shooting and looting at will. They pick up Whitman, a bigamist sheriff who aids them in their crimes and later sets up a phony kidnaping that goes awry;
he gets shot. Earle, an 82-year-old woman who has been cleaned out by Las Vegas slot ...
Released:
1975
Rated:
PG
Length:
82 mins