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Tag Archives: Pam Grier
Foxy Brown (1974) Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. Read More »
Coffy (1973) Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui
A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim. Read More »
Original Gangstas (1996) Larry Cohen, Fred Williamson, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier
Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana, USA. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson’s son by a local gang Read More »
Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Bob Kelljan, William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier
After a dying Voodoo queen chooses an adopted apprentice as her successor, her true heir is outraged. Read More »
Bucktown (1975) Arthur Marks, Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Action, Crime, Drama
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. Read More »
On the Edge (1986) Rob Nilsson, Bruce Dern, Bill Bailey, Pam Grier, Drama, Sport
In one final attempt to achieve victory, an aging professional runner is training vigorously for a very tough marathon race. Read More »
Friday Foster (1975) Arthur Marks, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Action
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America.
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Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino, Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Crime, Thriller
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and cop Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) bust stewardess Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), who was smuggling money into the country for Ordell. Ordell springs Jackie, but when middle-aged bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) picks her up at the jail, he’s attracted to her, and they choose a romantic route with detours. Mistrust and suspicions surface after Jackie pits Ordell and the cops against each other, convincing Ordell that she’s going to double-cross the cops. Tarantino commented on the film’s budget: “Jackie Brown only cost $12 million. You can’t lose. You absolutely, positively can’t lose. And you don’t have to compromise.”
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The Big Bird Cage (1972) Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman, Action, Crime, Drama, Erotic
Terry, a social-climbing young woman accidentally gets caught up in the activities of two revolutionaries, Blossom and Django, and finds herself in a concentration camp for women. In the center of the camp is a towering wooden machine (“The Big Bird Cage”) in which the women risk their lives processing sugar as the evil warden looks on. The prisoners are subjected to sadistic cruelty from the guards and fellow prisoners, and all attempts at escape are dealt with…permanently. Terry’s only hope for escape lies in Blossom and her revolutionary allies
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