''The Slams'' is a

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American action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring

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Plot

Curtis Hook (

) is caught by the police after a heist. In jail, Curtis has to deal with people who want to know where he stashed the loot while also trying to get out of jail in time to get the money before its hiding place is demolished.

Cast

as Curtis X. Hook * Judy Pace as Iris Daniels * Roland Bob Harris as Captain Stambell (as Roland 'Bob' Harris) * Paul Harris as Jackson Barney (as Paul E. Harris) * Frank DeKova as Capiello * Ted Cassidy as Glover * Frenchia Guizon as Macey * John Dennis as Sergeant Morella / Flood * Jac Emel as Zack *

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as The Warden (as Quinn Redeker)

Tagline

JIM BROWN goes over the wall to flash with a million $ stash.

Production

The film was produced by Gene Corman, brother of famous

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producer Roger Corman. Gene hired Kaplan on the basis of the director's handling of the black subplot in Roger Corman's '' The Student Teachers''. The only requirement was that Kaplan meet with Jim Brown. "I found him to be quite sweet, quite charming," says Kaplan.Jonathan Kaplan on ''The Slams''
at Trailers From Hell Kaplan found Gene Corman a far more hands on producer than his brother, casting the movie and using his own editor. The film was shot on location mostly at Lincoln Heights Prison in Los Angeles. Brown wanted to fight someone bigger than him in a fight scene so Ted Cassidy was cast. Kaplan said he found the way to keep Brown engaged in the movie was to get him involved in some sort of competition, so he organised people to play chess with him in between takes. "We got along because I treated him like an actor, not like an ex-football player," said Kaplan.

Reception

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gave it a C+ and said the film "Aims to prove that blacks like whites can also play amoral criminal hero roles with a straight face and a smirk." Critic Mike McGranaghan gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "It's everything you could ever want from a Jim Brown prison movie."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Slams 1973 films Films directed by Jonathan Kaplan 1973 action films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films produced by Gene Corman 1970s English-language films American action films 1970s American films English-language action films