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Entries from May 2006

Truck Turner (1974)

May 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment

Isaac Hayes stars in this terrific American International Pictures drive-in flick as the title character, a football player turned bounty hunter.
Truck and his partner Jerry (Alan Weeks) are dispatched to bring an armed and dangerous pimp to jail. […]

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Tags: Blaxploitation

Slaughter (1972)

May 30th, 2006 · No Comments

When a couple are blown up by a car bomb, their son, a retired Green Beret named Slaughter (Jim Brown) goes gunning for revenge. “The Man” gets Slaughter to agree to go to South America, and for reasons that […]

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Tags: Blaxploitation

Let’s Do It Again (1975)

May 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby were paired together again in this follow-up to Uptown Saturday Night, this time playing working class, married men from Atlanta (Poitier is a milkman, Cosby a factory worker). When their community lodge has to […]

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Tags: Blaxploitation

Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

May 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Sidney Poitier & Bill Cosby star as working class married men in Chicago (Poitier is an ironworker, Cosby a cabbie). Cosby convinces his straight pal Poitier to take a walk on the wilder side and accompany him to an upscale speakeasy. After Cosby bluffs their way inside, masked men rob the joint, stealing Poitier’s wallet, […]

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Tags: Blaxploitation