A movie that unites directors Al Adamson and León Klimovsky, Mean Mother actually is a mash-up, as Adamson takes footage from Klimovsky’s El Hombre que Vino del Odio and adds in his own blaxploitation movie and makes something new.
Beauregard Jones (Clifton Brown, who is really singer Dobie Gray) and Joe (Dennis Safren) run away from Vietnam. Jones gets to Spain while Joe ends up in Rome. They both get into crime — and some ladies — before meeting back up in Canada.
To say this movie makes no sense is senseless. It’s two movies that in no way work together forced to work together, a slow European crime movie and a quick American cash-in on black-fronted films. The fact that it even attempts — and that people were, well, hoodwinked into seeing it — is why I keep coming back to the films of Al Adamson.
