Directed by D’Urville Martin • 1975 • United States
Starring Rudy Ray Moore, D’Urville Martin, Lady Reed
Dolemite is the role that made Rudy Ray Moore a midnight movie icon. The famously foulmouthed stand-up comedian and party-record king (who also served as producer and writer) plays the brash titular pimp who is serving twenty years in prison after being framed by his rival Willie Green (D’Urville Martin). When he’s released with the help of fellow pimp Queen Bee (Lady Reed), Dolemite sets about getting even with those who wronged him—with some help from his all-girl gang of kung-fu killers.
Directed by Ray Marsh • 1975 • United States
Starring Marlene Clark, Lawrence Cook, Wally Taylor
This fascinating, long-overlooked fusion of supernatural horror and Afrocentric mysticism has earned comparisons to Bill Gunn’s reclaimed independent landmark GANJA & HESS. Like that film, LORD SHANG...
Directed by Michael Schultz • 1976 • United States
Starring Ivan Dixon, DeWayne Jessie, Bill Duke
“Workin’ at the car wash, yeah!” It doesn’t get more awesomely ’70s than this funky, freewheeling disco comedy. It’s just another day at the Dee-Luxe Car Wash in Los Angeles, which means that the cl...
Directed by Frank Packard • 1977 • United States
Starring J. Walter Smith, Tobar Mayo, Roxie Young
When a Black revolutionary (Tobar Mayo) working as a bodyguard for a scientist developing a superpower serum is transformed into an indestructible, telekinetic man of steel, he sets about unleashin...
