- Year
- 1973
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Director
- Jack Hill
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (28/100)
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Pam Grier's arrival. Jack Hill knows exactly what he has.
Pam Grier's arrival as a lead, and Jack Hill knew exactly what he had. A nurse goes after the dealers who put her sister in a hospital, and Grier plays it with a directness that makes the men around her look like they are acting and she is not.
It is a revenge film with real anger under the exploitation surface, and Grier does her own glaring, which is most of the performance. The politics are muddled and the violence is not.
She made Foxy Brown right after, louder and worse. Start here.
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Written about
- Blaxploitation, 1971 to 1975
Melvin Van Peebles caught gonorrhea on his own set, filed a workers' comp claim, and bought more film stock with the settlement. Four years later the studios had mined the audience out and moved on.
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