Truck Turner was released in 1974 The "Blaxploitation" movie starred music icon Issac Hayes in the starring role, Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols. Not as widely know as some of the more famous "Blaxplo-Movies" (Shaft, Superfly,The Mack etc) the movie is still considered a cult classic.
The movie's plot consists of bounty hunter Truck Turner (Hayes) a former athlete tracking down bail jumpers and bringing them in. One assignment leads a bail skipping pimp named Gator. Truck and his partner need to track him down. After of course getting his man Truck runs afoul of Gator's main chick "Dorinda" (played viciously by Nichols in a against type Star Trek performance) It seems Dorinda wants Truck dead and she runs to some of Gators pimp brethren to handle that for her. She offers a great incentive the one who does it will get Gators stable (including one nick-named KFC as she is "finger licking good") Harvard Blue (Yaphet Kotto) steps up to collect on that deal. So with the two gunning for each other the neighborhoods are going to become war zones.
Dorinda running the Show!
Truck Turner is not going to win a NAACP image award but it still very funny.Its not a very hard movie to find so find it, watch it and enjoy. If not for the clothes but to see "Uhura" from Star Trek show you why Captain Kirk was down with "the swirl" So many of these movies were made because movie studios wanted to cash in on African Americans coming out in droves to see movies about them,starring them and of course kicking ass. These movies are not always politically correct and the language is sometimes very bad but it does shows how some people had to survive in the 70s.
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL
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