History Film / BlackMamaWhiteMama

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* JiggleShow: The many scenes with topless and braless women provide ample examples of bouncing breasts, especially with the well-endowed Pam Grier. Even when she is wearing a bra, it's loose enough to allow her breasts to jiggle independently of each other, in a way that's usually only seen in certain types of animated movies.

** The cut of the red dress Lee is wearing at the beginning of the film makes it impossible for her to wear a bra, but she obviously wears one under her prison uniform.

''Black Mama, White Mama'' is a 1973 ExploitationFilm from Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures, starting as a Women In Prison film and then following the escape of two prisoners and the ensuing womanhunt. It stars Creator/PamGrier as Lee Daniels and Creator/MargaretMarkov as Karen Brent. Lee robs Vic, her big shot drug dealer/pimp/boyfriend, and ends up in jail. Meanwhile, revolutionary Karen is arrested for smuggling weapons for the guerilla. The pair escape and don't get along at first (especially since they are chained together but want to go in opposite directions). [[CharacterDevelopment Later they do]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Matron Densmore masturbates to an audible climax while spying on the female prisoners in the shower.

* ThePeepingTom: Matron Densmore is shown to have a peep hole which lets her look into the prison shower, which she does while the prisoners are playfully horsing around naked, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating while watching them]].

* JiggleShow: The many scenes with topless and braless women provide some live-action examples of breast shake, especially with the well-endowed Pam Grier. Even when she is wearing a bra, it's loose enough to allow her breasts to jiggle independently of each other.

* {{Gainaxing}}: The many scenes with topless and braless women provide some live-action examples of this, especially with the well-endowed Pam Grier. Even when she is wearing a bra, it's loose enough to allow her breasts to jiggle independently of each other.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The red dress Lee wears in the beginning of the film (before she changes into prison garb) has both this and a bare back.

** Throughout the movie, there are many shots of naked and topless women, and braless breasts under thin shirts, as well as panty shots.

* MsFanservice: The lead female characters Lee and Karen both provide lots of {{fanservice}}. Both of them are very good-looking, appear bare-breasted, and spend nearly the entire film in very skimpy prison wear which makes it clear Karen doesn't wear a bra, along with panty shots whenever they bend.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The prison uniforms basically consist of oversized T-shirts and underwear. This leads to frequent panty shots and makes Karen's lack of a bra very obvious.

* MsFanservice: The lead female characters Lee and Karen both provide lots of {{fanservice}}. Both of them are very good-looking, appear bare-breasted, and spend nearly the entire film in very skimpy prison wear which makes it clear Karen doesn't wear a bra, along with {{panty shot}}s whenever they bend.

* PantyShot: The "dresses" the prison inmates wear are really just oversize T-shirts and not long enough for them to bend over without their underwear showing.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The prison uniforms basically consist of oversized T-shirts and underwear. This leads to frequent {{Panty Shot}}s and makes Karen's lack of a bra very obvious.

** The cut of the red dress Lee is wearing at the beginning of the film makes it inpossible for her to wear a bra, but she obviously wears one under her prison uniform.

* FanserviceExtra: Obviously, one of the selling points of the movie. Numerous minor female characters get fully or partly naked, plus in tittilating situations.
** One of the first scenes in prison is a long shower scene ("Okay, strip 'em and get 'em wet!") where we get a lot of close-up of the prisoner's breasts. Some of the women even play with a water hose in the shower.

* JiveTurkey: Lee, to some extent (it is a 1970s exploitation movie, after all) but rather toned down.
* MsFanservice: The lead female characters Lee and Karen, both provide lots of {{fanservice}}. Both of them are very good-looking, appear bare-breasted, and spend nearly the entire film in very skimpy prison wear which makes it clear Karen doesn't wear a bra, along with {{panty shot}}s whenever they bend.
* NippleAndDimed: Averted, with many topless scenes. There is no attempt to avoid showing women's nipples. Well this ''is'' an exploitation movie.

** The cut of the red dress Lee is wearing at the beginning of the film makes it clear that it's all she's wearing, but she then wears a bra and panties under her prison uniform.

* MsFanservice: The lead female characters Lee and Karen, given they're the protagonists, provide most of the {{fanservice}}. Both of them are very good-looking, appearing bare-breasted and spent nearly the entire film in very skimpy prison wear which makes it clear they don't have bras under their shirts, along with {{panty shot}}s whenever they bend (since this "uniform" doesn't feature pants-rather, it's just a long shirt, though called a dress).

* VaporWear - Karen is very obviously braless under her thin prison outfit. Then she sacrifices her panties to create a false track for the dogs used to find her and Lee...

* AbsoluteCleavage - The red dress Lee wears in the beginning of the film (before she changes into prison garb) has both this and a bare back.
* ActionGirl - Both Lee and Karen show quite a lot of fighting skills during their escape.

* AnyoneCanDie - In the climactic shoot-out between the guerillas and Vic's goons, [[spoiler: Karen]] is shot in the chest and killed.
* BadHabits - After escaping from a convict transport, Lee and Karen waylay a pair of nuns, rob them of their habits, and put them on on top of their bright-yellow prison clothes.

* CatFight - While in prison, Lee and Karen get into several cat fights with each other and their inmates. After their escape, they fall out and exchange some catty blows, but soon have to concentrate on survival (and the fights they get into after that are of a much deadlier nature).
* ChainedHeat - Lee and Karen are handcuffed together when they are transported to a different prison. They manage to escape, but are still chained together, which complicates matters since they not only can't stand each other, but want to go in opposite directions.
* ADateWithRosiePalms - Matron Densmore masturbates to an audible climax while spying on the female prisoners in the shower.
* ElectricTorture - Vic subjects one of his prostitutes to this to extract information about where Lee is heading. Par for the course in this movie, the girl's stripped down to the waist and the electrodes are placed just below her breasts. Somewhat surprisingly for the genre, she actually manages to convince Vic that she doesn't know anything and he lets her go.

* {{Fanservice}} - Obviously, one of the selling points of the movie.

* {{Gainaxing}} - The many scenes with topless and braless women provide some live-action examples of this, especially with the well-endowed Pam Grier. Even when she is wearing a bra, it's loose enough to allow her breasts to jiggle independently of each other.
* GirlsBehindBars - The depiction of the women's prison is a classic male fantasy, with beautiful, scantily-clad inmates, lots of LesYay, and openly lesbian, sadistic staff.
* JiveTurkey - Lee, to some extent (it is a 1970s exploitation movie, after all) but rather toned down.
* NippleAndDimed - Averted, with many topless scenes. There is no attempt to avoid showing women's nipples. Well this ''is'' an exploitation movie.
* PantyShot - The "dresses" the prison inmates wear are really just oversize T-shirts and not long enough for them to bend over without their underwear showing.
* PsychoLesbian - Matron Densmore appears to be not quite mentally stable, switching between abusive behaviour towards the prisoners, masturbating while spying on them in the shower, and attempting to seduce them. All this despite apparently being in a relationship with her colleague.
* PunishmentBox - As a punishment for getting into a fight during dinner, Lee and Karen are stripped to the waist and put into a metal box in the prison yard.
* RebelliousPrincess - Karen Brent. She says to Lee that she's always had plenty of money, but it never did anything for her. Now she's working with the guerillas to liberate the island.
* RecycledINSPACE - ''Film/TheDefiantOnes'' [-[[GenderFlip WITH WOMEN!]]-] [[spoiler: Except one of them evades capture, while the other... doesn't.]]
* SassyBlackWoman - Lee has a lot of attitude, takes no disrespect from anybody, and talks back a lot.
* ShowerScene - After arriving in prison, the new inmates are stripped and made to shower. The scene is shot with loving attention to detail and a notable absence of {{SceneryCensor}}s.
* SkinshipGrope - Some of the prisoners engage in some [[LesYay playful wrestling]] in the shower. The scene of naked women groping each other is of course played for FanService.
* {{Stripperiffic}} - The prison uniforms basically consist of oversized T-shirts and underwear. This leads to frequent {{Panty Shot}}s and makes Karen's lack of a bra very obvious.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified - The guerillas Karen are helping are portrayed as good guys, but it is never shown what exactly they are fighting for or against. They are just generic revolutionaries, with a Che Guevara-like leader.

** Local crime lord Ruben, who is promised a reward by the officials to capture Karen, presents the image of a jovial, country music loving cowboy. He is clearly supposed to be ''way'' past the MoralEventHorizon, but actor Sid Haig is [[HamAndCheese obviously having way too much fun]] to be truly hate-worthy.

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* TheNeidermeyer - Matron Juliet Densmore, when she isn't soliciting sexual favours from the prisoners (she seems to prefer an AffablyEvil approach to outright rape, which would otherwise not seem to be beyond her).

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* ADateWithRosiePalms - Matron Densmore masturbates to an audible climax while spying on the female prisoners in the shower.

* NippleAndDimed - Averted, with many topless scenes. There is no attempt to avoid showing women's nipples.

* ShirtlessScene - Unusually for an American movie, there are plenty of scenes with topless women, and no attempt is made to {{NippleAndDime|d}} them.

''Black Mama, White Mama'' is a 1973 ExploitationFilm from Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures, strarting as a Women In Prison film and then following the escape of two prisoners and the ensuing womanhunt. It stars Creator/PamGrier as Lee Daniels. Lee robs Vic, her big shot drug dealer/pimp/boyfriend, and ends up in jail. Meanwhile, revolutionary Karen Brent (Creator/MargaretMarkov) is arrested for smuggling. The pair escape and don't get along at first (especially since they are chained together but want to go in opposite directions). [[CharacterDevelopment Later they do]].