''Ebony, Ivory & Jade'' is a 1976 film by director

Cirio Santiago Cirio Hermoso Santiago (January 18, 1936 – September 26, 2008) was a prolific Filipino film producer, director and writer. He used the screen names Cirio Santiago, Cirio H. Santiago and Leonard Hermes. Life and career Santiago was born on Janua ...

, made in Manila, Philippines. A relatively well-budgeted martial arts feature by Santiago's standards, the film was seen mainly in US drive-in movies, where it was first released as ''She-Devils in Chains''. It has also been released as ''American Beauty Hostages'', ''Foxfire'', and ''Foxforce''. Five female athletes are kidnapped during an international track meet in "Hong Kong," then fight their way to freedom after being recaptured several times. Considered a minor classic of the

blaxploitation 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 o ...

genre, ''Ebony, Ivory & Jade'' stars Rosanne Katon as track star Pam Rogers, the eponymous "Ebony" of the title. Colleen Camp co-stars as Ginger "Ivory" Douglas, her privileged track and field white rival. Christie Mayuga appears as Jackie, a.k.a. "Jade." This film is unrelated to the 1980 TV-movie pilot starring

Debbie Allen Deborah Kaye Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She has been nominated 20 times for an ...

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and Bert Convy. Admired by director Quentin Tarantino, the film is referenced in '' Pulp Fiction'' by Uma Thurman's character, who speaks about her role in an unsuccessful television series called ''Fox Force Five''. The trailer for ''Ebony, Ivory & Jade'' also used the phrase "roaring rampage of revenge", a phrase used to describe '' Kill Bill: Volume 1'' and referred to in the opening of '' Kill Bill: Volume 2''.

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* 1976 films Blaxploitation films American martial arts films Girls with guns films 1976 martial arts films Dimension Pictures films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Cirio H. Santiago 1970s American films {{martialart-film-stub