Everybody is after the money stolen by Hook before he ended up in prison, including the villainous head guard Capt. Stambell.Everybody is after the money stolen by Hook before he ended up in prison, including the villainous head guard Capt. Stambell.Everybody is after the money stolen by Hook before he ended up in prison, including the villainous head guard Capt. Stambell.
Roland Bob Harris
- Capt. Otis Stambell
- (as Roland 'Bob' Harris)
Paul Harris
- Jackson Barney
- (as Paul E. Harris)
Frank DeKova
- Capiello
- (as Frank De Kova)
Quinn K. Redeker
- Warden
- (as Quinn Redeker)
Charles Cyphers
- Nicol
- (uncredited)
Luther Fear
- Fighter with Laundry Paddle
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJim Brown insisted that someone as big or bigger than him be cast as the lead bad guy in the film in order to make his major confrontation with Glover at the end seem like a fair fight. This is why the hulking Ted Cassidy was cast as Glover.
- GoofsThere is no way a cement mixer truck would be left overnight in a prison, especially with cement in it. The disposal of the prison guard in the mixer is gruesome but very unrealistic.
- Alternate versionsUK pre-cert VHS on MGM, catalogue number UMV 10444, is censored for violence. Possibly pre-cut by MGM, nervous of then-brewing Video Nasty rumpus. Strangely, the cassette offers a running time of 97 minutes, six minutes longer than the accepted duration for this film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 8 (2002)
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I like Jim Brown but I did not enjoy his latest entry into the action/crime (little action) genre
Jim Brown, plays a slick robber named Curtis X. Hook who helps two other thugs rob the mafia of both their cash and their dope. The two double crossing thieves are thwarted by the savvy action hero Jim Brown, who then hides the money stash, before he gets sent to prison for a vehicle theft but not for any robbery that went unreported by the Mafia, and not for any of the murders of the drug dealing Mafia mobsters or for the murder of his double crossing robbery partners. Oh and who doesn't like to see the six (6) foot nine (9) inch actor Ted Cassidy as the bad guy fighting Jim Brown in prison? Cassidy kind of reminds me of the seven (7) foot (2) two inch Richard Kiel who was the James Bond villain in (1977) The Spy Who Love Me and (1979) Moonraker. There is also the hip, sleek and petite love interest of Curtis X. Hook who is Iris Daniels played by the well known Judy Pace.
So with a deep cast of crime makers, hot girls and our former grid iron action hero Jim Brown what's not to like? I just felt that the film was a low budget entry that must have all been filmed on the first take whether the actors stuck to the script or adlibbed their parts. The musical score was so reminiscent of all those 1960-70's TV crime series that I thought I would have time to go out and refresh my drink and popcorn during the commercial break. No luck though, I sat through the film waiting for more, but I got less.
I give this Jim Brown entry a barely passable 5 out of 10 IMDB blaxploitation rating. It's an okay time waster, nothing more, nothing less.
So with a deep cast of crime makers, hot girls and our former grid iron action hero Jim Brown what's not to like? I just felt that the film was a low budget entry that must have all been filmed on the first take whether the actors stuck to the script or adlibbed their parts. The musical score was so reminiscent of all those 1960-70's TV crime series that I thought I would have time to go out and refresh my drink and popcorn during the commercial break. No luck though, I sat through the film waiting for more, but I got less.
I give this Jim Brown entry a barely passable 5 out of 10 IMDB blaxploitation rating. It's an okay time waster, nothing more, nothing less.
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- Ed-Shullivan
- Jan 14, 2021
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- $259,078
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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