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Sheba, Baby
''Sheba, Baby'' is a 1975 American blaxploitation action film directed by William Girdler and starring Pam Grier and Austin Stoker. Plot Private investigator Sheba Shayne (Grier) returns from Chicago, Illinois to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to confront thugs who are trying to intimidate her father Andy into dissolving or handing over his family insurance company business. Sheba teams up with her father’s partner, Brick Williams, and the two rekindle their old romance. Driving in her father's car, Sheba is nearly killed when the vehicle explodes. The local police warn Sheba against continuing to pursue her investigation, but she persists. Later, four gangsters show up at Andy's office and open fire. Sheba kills three of them, but Andy is shot and killed during the battle. Sheba's investigation leads to an apartment complex, where another shootout ensues. After a chase into a nearby amusement park, Sheba extracts a confession from a gangster named Pilot that the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Girdler
William Girdler (October 22, 1947 – January 21, 1978) was an American filmmaker. In a span of six years, from 1972 to 1978, he directed nine feature films in such genres as horror and action. Girdler also wrote and produced three of his features, ''Abby (film), Abby'', ''Sheba, Baby'' and ''The Manitou''. Career Girdler, born in Louisville, Kentucky, started Studio One Productions in his early 20s and directed his first feature, a low-budget film entitled ''Asylum of Satan'' which was briefly released to theaters. Girdler's second effort was a slasher thriller entitled ''Three on a Meathook''. Both ''Asylum of Satan'' and ''Three on a Meathook'' were filmed in his hometown, and although both films received little notice, they got the attention of Samuel Z. Arkoff and American International Pictures (AIP). Girdler next directed three "blaxploitation" films. The first, in 1973, was a long-lost thriller titled ''The Zebra Killer'' starring Austin Stoker. By coincidence, anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coffy
''Coffy'' is a 1973 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier who seeks violent revenge against a heroin dealer responsible for her sister's addiction.Gary A. Smith, ''The American International Pictures Video Guide'', McFarland 2009 p 40 This was the third Jack Hill film to star Grier after ''The Big Doll House'' and ''The Big Bird Cage''. Grier would go on to boost her career as the leading "femme fatale" of blaxploitation for the rest of the 1970s. The film's tagline in advertising was "They call her 'Coffy' and she'll you!" Plot An Emergency Room nurse, named Flower Child Coffin, but usually referred to as 'Coffy', seeks revenge against the people responsible for her younger sister Lubelle's cocaine addiction and the widespread violence in her city. Under the guise of a prostitute willing to do anything for a drug fix, she lures a drug pusher and a mob boss to their residences, killing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaxploitation Films
Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in crime. The genre does rank among the first after the race films in the 1940s and 1960s in which black characters and communities are the protagonists and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks, antagonists or victims of brutality. The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally aimed at an urban African-American audience but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. Hollywood realized the potential profit of expanding the audiences of blaxp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American International Pictures Films
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1975 Films
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events *March 26: The film version of The Who's ''Tommy'' premieres in London. *May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, ''Star Wars'', George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic. *June 20: ''Jaws'' is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Bogle
Donald Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning black history in film and on television. He is an instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania. Early years Bogle grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia and graduated from Lincoln University in 1966. As a child, he spent a lot of time watching television and going to the movies. He wondered why there were very few black characters. He also wondered what happened to the black characters when they went off-screen. In a 2005 interview, Bogle recalled: In the movie '' Gone with the Wind'', where did Hattie McDaniel live—in the big house or the slaves' quarters? What did she think about the civil war? These were all questions I wanted answers to. Career Bogle's first book, ''Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretative History of Blacks in Films'', was published in 1973. In it, he identified five basic stereotypical film roles available to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Blaxploitation Films
This is an alphabetical list of films belonging to the blaxploitation genre. A :*''Aaron Loves Angela'' (1975) :*''Abar, the First Black Superman'' a.k.a. ''In Your Face'' (1977) :*'' Abby'' (1974)Lawrenc 2007, pp. 59, 108 :*''Across 110th Street'' (1972) :*'' Action Jackson'' (1988) :*'' Adiós Amigo'' (1976) :*'' Alice'' (2022) :*''Amazing Grace'' (1974) B :*''Baadasssss!'' (2003) :*''Bad Black & Beautiful'' (1977) :*'' The Bad Bunch'' (1973) :*'' Bamboo Gods and Iron Men'' (1974) :*''Bare Knuckles'' (1977) :*''The Baron'' (1977) :*''Beat Street'' (1984) :*'' Big Time'' (1977) :*''The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings'' (1976) :*''Black'' (2008) :*''BlacKkKlansman'' (2018) :*''The Black Alley Cats'' (1973) :*''The Black Angels'' (1970) :*''Black Belt Jones '' (1974) :*'' Black Belt Jones II – The Tattoo Connection'' (1978) :*'' Black Brigade'', a.k.a. ''Carter's Army'' (1970) :*''The Black Bunch'' (1973) :*'' Black Caesar'' (1973) :*'' Black Cobra'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Films Of 1975
A list of American films released in 1975. '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The highest-grossing film of 1975 was ''Jaws''. __TOC__ A–B C–G H–M N–S T–Z See also * 1975 in the United States External links 1975 filmsat the Internet Movie Database * List of 1975 box office number-one films in the United States {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1975 1975 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1975 films by country or language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blu-ray
The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of storing several hours of high-definition video (HDTV 720p and 1080p). The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as feature films and for the physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The name "Blu-ray" refers to the blue laser (which is actually a violet laser) used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The polycarbonate disc is in diameter and thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional or pre-BD-XL Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual-layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrow Films
Arrow Films is a British independent film distributor and restorer specialising in world cinema, arthouse, horror and classic films. It sells Ultra HD Blu-rays, Blu-rays and DVDs online, and also operates its own subscription video on-demand service, Arrow Player. History Arrow Films was established in 1991 as a family firm in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Whilst Arrow Films was the company's primary brand for theatrical releases, the Arrow Video label was created in 2009 specialising in cult and horror home video. In September 2011, the ArrowDrome brand was created for budget DVDs. The Arrow Academy and Arrow TV labels specialised in the world cinema and Nordic noir genres respectively, but since 2021, each has been merged into Arrow Video. In the same year, the company launched Arrow Player, a subscription video on-demand service in the UK, US and Canada. Arrow began releasing films in the North American market in 2015. As of 2022, it operated in the UK, Ireland, US and Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Mason
Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American soul singer with several R&B and pop hits in the 1960s and 1970s, best known for her self-written 1965 hit song " Yes, I'm Ready". She has released 12 albums, including her 1965 debut with ''Yes, I'm Ready'', and has had 14 top 40 hits on the US ''Billboard'' R&B chart. Career Mason initially focused on songwriting when she entered the music industry in her teens. As a performer she had a major hit single with her third release in 1965, "Yes, I'm Ready" (number 5 pop, number 2 R&B). She had modest success throughout the rest of the decade on the small Arctic label, run by her manager Jimmy Bishop. She reached the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 40 again in 1965 with "Sad, Sad Girl", and "Oh How It Hurts" in 1967. A two-year stay with National General Records, run by a film production company, produced one album and four singles which failed to find success. In the 1970s, Mason sign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
