Directed by Jonathan Kaplan • 1974 • United States
Starring Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks
In this high-octane thriller, Truck Turner (Isaac Hayes, who also composed the soundtrack) is a bounty hunter who’s tracking a sadistic pimp on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Armed with his brute strength and ice-cool partner (Alan Weeks), Truck closes in on his mark. But a tragic accident soon changes all the rules, and suddenly the hunter finds himself being hunted by the city’s deadliest hired killers. Truck strikes back in a series of wild car chases, shoot-outs, and bone-crunching fistfights.
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 ...
Directed by Arthur Marks • 1975 • United States
Starring Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge
The legendary Pam Grier stars as photojournalist Friday Foster in this adaptation of the 1970s comic strip of the same name. After being warned by her boss that her personal involvement in the sto...
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...
