Double Feature
Cleopatra Jones (IB Tech Print)
A Turkish poppy field is torched – and a U.S. drug trafficker known as “Mommy” (Shelley Winters) is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy’s next call should be to 911. For now she’ll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson). Mommy is relentless in her vendetta – but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. (Bong So Hon, technical advisor on Billy Jack, supervised the karate sequences.) Doodlebug, Pickle, Snake and more of Mommy’s offbeat stooges add glide to the story’s stride. Their antics, Mommy’s chortling sleaziness and Cleo’s class shape the power and pizazz of Cleopatra Jones. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Jack Starrett
- Writer
- Screenplay by Max Julien and Sheldon Keller, Story by Max Julien
- Starring
- Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Dan Frazer, Bill McKinney
- Year
- 1973
- Rated
- PG
- Country
- USA
- Format
- I.B. Technicolor 35mm
- Running Time
- 89 minutes
Black Belt Jones (IB Tech Print)
A former International Karate Champion, Jim Kelly made a blazing screen debut with Bruce Lee in the martial arts landmark Enter the Dragon. Now, as Black Belt Jones, Kelly’s fiery fighting expertise rips the screen apart in his first solo star turn, featuring Scatman Crothers (The Shining) and sultry Glory Hendry (Live and Let Die). Pop Boyd (Crothers) owns a thriving karate school near downtown Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it sits on a piece of land upon which a local mob wants to build its own “civic center.” When the gangsters’ muscling of Pop leads to tragedy, Black Belt Jones steps forward to exact his individual brand of lightning-charged revenge. Filmmaker Robert Clouse, who showcased Lee in Enter the Dragon and Jackie Chan in The Big Brawl, serves up masterful action sequences of which Kelly said, “every move was choreographed like a ballet.” That unique blend of ballistic combat and colorful comic characters makes Black Belt Jones light on its feet – and heavy on entertainment! (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Robert Clouse
- Writer
- Screenplay by Oscar Williams, Story by Fred Weintraub and Alex Rose
- Starring
- Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers, Eric Laneuville
- Year
- 1974
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- I.B. Technicolor 35mm
- Running Time
- 85 minutes