This is a fun one:)
Mummy an' the Armadillo concerns a young woman who is held hostage by a crazy family at their roadside café. Betty Buckley plays the always-drunk matriarch of the family and she is on full-on crazy awesome mode! Unfortunately, Betty only has this scene and another small one at the end of the movie - and the film really suffers for it. It's actually a lot better than I thought it would be, but Betty is such a force in this sequence that you really miss her Jack Daniels-swilling lady once she passes out.
It's wonderful watching Betty so convincingly play this seemingly evil woman (though she does have some redeeming qualities that Betty hints at with her marvelously expressive face) next to watching her play the warm and loving women of her past such as Abby Bradford and Miss Collins. Her range is pretty remarkable. And I LOVE that final screen shot because it's right after she says that she's worried about her son because he must be crazy - and then makes THAT face:) Gotta love Betty!
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