COFFY, 1973, MGM/UA, 91 min. Jack Hill had already directed the ferocious Pam Grier in the women-in-prison pix THE BIG DOLL HOUSE and THE BIG BIRD CAGE, but this was the first time they worked together on home turf, and the result is one of the most spectacularly satisfying black action films ever made. Nurse Coffy (Pam Grier), her sister nearly dying from tainted heroin and her cop friend murdered by pushers, is transformed into a one woman hit squad bent on exterminating every hardcore drug dealer in Los Angeles. Mindbending! With Robert Doqui, Linda Haynes, Sid Haig and Allen Arbus.
FOXY BROWN, 1974, MGM/UA (AIP), 94 min. Dir. Jack Hill. She’s baaaad, she’s black and she’s back – Pam Grier returns in this unofficial sequel to the super-smash COFFY (the film’s original title was BURN, COFFY, BURN). This time, Grier goes undercover as a high-class hooker to smash an ultra-tacky white drug mob (bad hair, gold chains and very uptight …) Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear from "Starsky & Hutch") co-stars as Grier’s skinny brother. Discussion between films with writer/director Jack Hill (schedule permitting).
