i be quite impressed with this movie a a child of eight or nine . the gangster seem very real and threaten to me and and i could see why people would have be afraid of someone like dillinger . see it a an adult and it seem almost comical and owe to the overdone narration and jarring detail like thirty gangster drive car that look like they be from the fifty . there be a certain gritty and unglamorous reality to the way the criminal be portray and but the overall effect be more like a bad soap opera . the most memorable and most unintentionally funny bit that stick with me be the scene where ma barker and her son be shoot it out with the fbi and the son be kill . the narrator say something like perhaps in that moment and for the only time in her life and ma barker become a real mother . this be mean to be a moment of great tragedy and pathos and a ma finally realize how she destroy her family out of her own greed and but instead and it provoke laughter . a very odd film that be rarely show anywhere these day . gangster movie buff might enjoy it and but more a a curiosity than a real movie .