Cleopatra Jones
1973 Directed by Jack Starrett
Synopsis
Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) goes after the the notorious drug-lord "Mommy".
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Pretty standard fare blaxploitation brought to a higher level of watchability thanks to the gorgeous Tamara Dobson.
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Hugely entertaining, eccentric Blaxploitation smash - an oddball mix of Bond-esque spy hijinks, ghetto violence and socially-conscious moralising. Tamara Dobson catwalks her way through every scene with style and sass.
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Pretty standard fare blaxploitation brought to a higher level of watchability thanks to the gorgeous Tamara Dobson.
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The so-called “blaxploitation” genre erupted in the early 1970s and in retrospect was a brief but formidable assertion of Afro-American cinema as a viable competitor to the so-called mainstream. These showed that films could successfully target an Afro-American audience and still be commercial performers, attracting even white audiences in the process. Often featuring notable soundtracks these films frequently tackled so-called black stereotypes in an urban setting and regularly developed subtexts concerning racism, drug culture and the reality of ghetto life: cultural appraisal. Although many of the characters celebrated in these films were amoral and violent figures, just as viable, however, were a number of works that sought to introduce affirmative role-models for the Afro-American community, even if in doing so…
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Hugely entertaining, eccentric Blaxploitation smash - an oddball mix of Bond-esque spy hijinks, ghetto violence and socially-conscious moralising. Tamara Dobson catwalks her way through every scene with style and sass.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A comic book/James Bond flavour of blaxploitation that really pours on the exploitation elements, including car chases, shoot-outs, music, inner city politics and camp fashion. It’s still not a top-tier example of the genre, but it’s worth watching.