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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Boss Nigger (1975)





































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Storyline
Boss (Fred Williamson), has "decided to hunt white folks for a change," by becoming a bounty hunter to click the hammer on fugitive outlaws. He and his comic sidekick Amos (D'Urville Martin) ride into the town of San Miguel, find it has no sheriff, and takes the job himself, much to the displeasure of the racial epithet-hurling townsfolk who must pay $20 each time they use the "n-word." Those $20 fines add up faster than a Texas tornado, as does the posterior kicking of those who try to keep our heroes from instituting "black man's law in white man's town."

Mandingo (1975)




























Starring:

Storyline
Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son Hammond (Perry King) rule their plantation and its inhabitants with an iron fist. Warren needs to see Hammond wed a woman from a respectable family, sire a son, and acquire a Mandingo slave (Ken Norton) to breed a stronger slave colony. Hammond finds that respectable woman in his bride, Blanche (Susan George), but her questionable chastity soon has Hammond returning to his wandering ways. When he purchases the beautiful Ellen (Brenda Sykes) to be a house slave and his mistress Blanche is pushed to the edge.