Foxy Brown
(1974)
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This hip, violent, fast-moving film firmly established Pam Grier as the goddess of Blaxploitation. She plays Foxy, a toughened woman living in a drug-plagued L.A. ghetto who goes on a one woman mission of vengeance after her undercover cop boyfriend (Terry Carter) is shot down in the street. The badass lass goes undercover herself, as a call girl for the evil mistress of the drug cartel (Kathryn Loder), and with the help of a neighbourhood vigilante committee, wreaks some hell on the bad guys. Chock full of sex, nudity and rampant violence, this is certainly not for children, baby. Highlights include a lesbian bar brawl and Foxy's sexual belittling of an old white judge. Co-stars include Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, and Sally-Ann Stroud. Don't miss the crazily coloured opening credits, which feature Grier boogying down in all sorts of super-sexy outfits to the Willie Hutch title track (Hutch also composed the groovy funk score). This was directed by cult icon Jack Hill, who also scored with Grier in the similar COFFY released the previous year. |
Radio Times
“Don't mess aroun' with Foxy Brown” read the shoutline for Pam Grier's fourth collaboration with director Jack Hill. However, far more revealing is the poster copy that sums up the slam-bam nature of one of blaxploitation's low points: “She's got drive and that ain't jive. She don't bother to bring 'em back alive!” Posing as a hooker to snare the drug dealers who killed her cop boyfriend, Grier is so preoccupied with kinky sex and violence she has to leave what little acting there is to Antonio Fargas, who plays her dopey brother. Luckily, she did much better as Jackie Brown.
