''Welcome Home Brother Charles'' (also known as ''Soul Vengeance'') is a 1975 American

blaxploitation film 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 ...

written and directed by

Jamaa Fanaka Jamaa Fanaka (born Walter Gordon; September 6, 1942 – April 1, 2012) was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his 1979 film, ''Penitentiary'', and was one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion film movement. Early life and ...

. The film stars Marlo Monte as a wrongfully imprisoned man who seeks vengeance upon his transgressors using his prehensile penis. The film, which was shot on weekends over the course of seven months, was completed while Fanaka was a student of

UCLA Film School The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT), is one of the 12 schools within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) located in Los Angeles, California. Its creation was groundbreaking in that it was the first time a leadi ...

Cast

* Marlo Monte as Charles Murray * Reatha Grey as Carmen * Stan Kamber as Jim * Tiffany Peters as Christina Freeman * Ben Bigelow as Harry Freeman * Jake Carter as N.D. * Jackie Ziegler as Twyla * Ed Sander as Judge * Teri Hayden as Judge's Wife * Stephen Schenck as The Prosecutor * Kamala James as Prosecutor's Wife

Home media

In 2018, the film was restored in 2K and released on DVD and Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome as a

double feature The double feature is a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatres would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which one feature film and various short subject reels would be shown. Opera use Opera ho ...

with the film '' Emma Mae''.

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External links

* * {{Jamaa Fanaka 1970s exploitation films Blaxploitation films American exploitation films Films directed by Jamaa Fanaka 1970s English-language films 1970s American films