A buxom beauty, undercover narcotics agent Cleo Jones (Tamara Dobson) is the principal operative in a covert scheme to eradicate an international drug trade. But she's pulled away from important business when a phony raid on her boyfriend's ghetto halfway house puts the rehabilitation centre in jeopardy. Cleo will soon discover .. Read more
| Starring | Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters, Brenda Sykes |
|---|---|
| Director | Jack Starrett |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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A buxom beauty, undercover narcotics agent Cleo Jones (Tamara Dobson) is the principal operative in a covert scheme to eradicate an international drug trade. But she's pulled away from important business when a phony raid on her boyfriend's ghetto halfway house puts the rehabilitation centre in jeopardy. Cleo will soon discover the source of her domestic troubles: Mommy (Shelly Winters), a raunchy underworld eccentric with a collection of Amazonian women as sexual slaves.
| Starring | Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters, Brenda Sykes |
|---|---|
| Director | Jack Starrett |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Aug 2004 Production year: 1973 |
| Format | DVD |
After napalming opium fields in Turkey, six-foot-two-tall narcotics agent Tamara Dobson returns to Los Angeles to confront Shelley Winters, lesbian queen of the drug underworld. Jack Starrett handles the action well, though clumsy martial arts and comic book theatrics conspire against his vigorous direction. Yet the meld of funky exuberance, urban angst (Jones's boyfriend runs a halfway house for junkies) and camp performances (with leather-jacketed Winters giving new meaning to the phrase over-acting) make this blaxploitation landmark a heady, bad-ass cocktail.
Blaxploitation product in which six-foot-two Agent Tamara Dobson wages war on drugs, rednecks and other social evils.... read more on Time Out
Classic blaxploitaition cinema. It has the clothes, the hair, the jive and the black power politics but it doesnt have Pam Grier. Tamara Dobson looks good parading around in her various fashion model outfits but her fight scenes are badly staged and she doesnt have the earthy presence of Grier to convince. Get the feeling shed be more at home in a t.v. soap than a blaxploitation film. Antonia Fargas is in it and delivers his usual charismatic hustler performance which is the best thing about the film.
This is nicely shot and as usual with blaxploitation films the soundtrack's incredible, but it's badly acted and not tremendously engaging. If you're a fan of the genre give it a go but if not a better starting point is the 'shaft' or 'superfly' series as an introduction.