Hit Man (1972)

Starring:

• Bernie Casey
• Pam Grier
• Lisa Moore
• Bhetty Waldron
• Sam Laws
• Candy All 
• Marilyn Joi 
• Christopher Joy 
• Roger E. Mosley

Storyline
Tyrone Tackett's brother wasn't the kind of man to throw his life away. Somebody killed him, plain and simple. And by the time Tyrone crisscrosses L.A. and pieces together the crime, lots of folks are going to pay. With equal amounts of tough and sexy, Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin's sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads. And throughout, star Casey "keeps enough cool for a half a dozen movie heroes" (Roger Greenspun, The New York Times).

Big Time (1977)

Starring:

• Christopher Joy
• Jayne Kennedy
• Roger E. Mosley

Storyline
A 1977 blaxploitation obscurity produced by Motown Films with an original soundtrack by Smokey Robinson! Small-time con man Big Time Eddie Jones hustles his way to the big payoff, while trying to stay one step ahead of insurance investigators, the FBI and the Mob. Think “Uptown Saturday Night” with a harder edge. Starring blaxploitation regular Christopher Joy and the lovely Jayne Kennedy, Big Time is about as rare as lost Blaxploitation films get.

Link to soundtrack review:
Smokey Robinson- Big Time 1977

Hell Up in Harlem (1973)

Starring:

• Fred Williamson
• Julius Harris 
• Gloria Hendry 
• Margaret Avery 
• D'Urville Martin 
• Tony King 
• Gerald Gordon 
• Bobby Ramsen

 

Storyline
Recovering from an onslaught of bullets that would have killed a lesser man, Tommy Gibbs is out for revenge against DiAngelo (Gerald Gordon, One Man’s Way), a sleazy New York District Attorney with mob ties who set up the hit-gone-wrong. Tommy, with the aid of his father, Papa Gibbs (Julius W. Harris, Super Fly) is soon on the mend and putting his Harlem empire back on track. But there’s a catch. Could Tommy’s near-death experience has changed the man who was once called the “Overlord of the Underworld”? Is redemption stronger than temptation? All will be revealed in the action-packed sequel to Black Caesar.