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1. Three the Hard Way (1974)

   Jim Kelly's first main role after Enter the Dragon. Three martial-arts specialists must stop a group of White supremacist, lead by a man known as Mr. Feather, after a scientist develops a race-targeted poison and plans to use it to commit genocide upon blacks. Riff material includes:

   • SLAUGHTER (Jim Brown), HAMMER (Fred Williamson) and BLACK BELT JONES (Jim Kelly) team up to stop a Domestic Terrorist attack that would escalate to full Genocide in Washington D.C., Detroit and L.A.
   • A shot of the then newly opened World Trade Center twin towers in New York City (Before... well...)
   • A cornucopia of classic Blaxploitation foes, including hicks, corrupt racist cops, evil businessmen and neo-Nazis.

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072284/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1

   Jim Kelly's first main role after Enter the Dragon. Three martial-arts specialists must stop a group of White supremacist, lead by a man known as Mr. Feather, after a scientist develops a race-targeted poison and plans to use it to commit genocide upon blacks. Riff material includes:

   • SLAUGHTER (Jim Brown), HAMMER (Fred Williamson) and BLACK BELT JONES (Jim Kelly) team up to stop a Domestic Terrorist attack that would escalate to full Genocide in Washington D.C., Detroit and L.A.
   • A shot of the then newly opened World Trade Center twin towers in New York City (Before... well...)
   • A cornucopia of… more
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2. Black Belt Jones (1974)

   One of Jim Kelly's early main roles in Blaxploitation Martial arts films. Riff Material includes:

   • Production Posse from Enter the Dragon. These included director Robert Clouse, producers Paul M. Heller and Fred Weintraub, producers' assistant Jeff Schechtman, make-up artist Gary Morris, as well as actors Jim Kelly, Robert Wall, Donnie Williams and Pat E. Johnson.
   • Half Bond film rip-off
   • Scatman Crothers runs a Dojo and Mafia offs him, leading to Jim Kelly having to avenge his dead Sensei (No for real)
   • This quote: "Mark this down to five dollars a bottle - he s@%# his pants when he died."

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071221/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_1

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3. One Down, Two to Go (1982)

   What do you get when you make a film starring SHAFT (Richard Roundtree), SLAUGHTER (Jim Brown), HAMMER (Fred Williamson) and BLACK BELT JONES (Jim Kelly)? You get a film about a pair of tough cops go after the mob who rigged the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy. Riff material includes:

   • Real fights featured in the martial arts tournament that opens the film.
   • A vehicle by Fred Williamson wanting to give Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Richard Roundtree work
   • Fred Williamson as the holy trinity (Writer, Director and Star)
   • Dog with Cigar (That happens in the film. Can't make it up)

   Information can be found here:

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086051/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_5_act

   What do you get when you make a film starring SHAFT (Richard Roundtree), SLAUGHTER (Jim Brown), HAMMER (Fred Williamson) and BLACK BELT JONES (Jim Kelly)? You get a film about a pair of tough cops go after the mob who rigged the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy. Riff material includes:

   • Real fights featured in the martial arts tournament that opens the film.
   • A vehicle by Fred Williamson wanting to give Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Richard Roundtree work
   • Fred Williamson as the holy trinity (Writer, Director and Star)
   • Dog with Cigar (That happens in the film. Can't make… more
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4. Everything Everywhere All at Once

   Because, why not? It's a crazy film asking for it!

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5. Molly Grows Up

   Molly Grows Up is a little gem from 1953 that taught girls how to start the process of becoming a woman. It also teaches them what they can or cannot do while on their monthly.

   Under the guidance of a Ms Hathaway-esque woman, Molly learns that she can swim, dance, and have picnics while her Aunt Flo visits, but she is advised that she can only moderately do square dances and ride horseback.

   It's a lovely little short that I suppose was advanced for its time, but comes across as overly hokey nowadays.

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6. Black Samurai (1976)

   A 1976 film starring Jim Kelly... that does not have any Samurais in it. It is however chaos incarcerate with everything that appears in the film.

   Here's the Riff package: kung-fu, a mariachi band, a vulture, a jet-pack, a sassy black woman, cool sound effects, a car-chase, and random explosions. Also, there's Santanic Worship, a secret agent organization, a fire-spouting pen, snakes, afros, a scene where the good guy kills tons of badguys with a grenade because why not dammit.

   Checks off a majority of the features a Blaxploitation film would have. Makes one wonder if Pam Grier, the original action girl, was approached for a part in the film and she turned it down. Imagine... a film with William and Coffy fighting crime together... with all of the above listed.

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074213/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_8_act

   A 1976 film starring Jim Kelly... that does not have any Samurais in it. It is however chaos incarcerate with everything that appears in the film.

   Here's the Riff package: kung-fu, a mariachi band, a vulture, a jet-pack, a sassy black woman, cool sound effects, a car-chase, and random explosions. Also, there's Santanic Worship, a secret agent organization, a fire-spouting pen, snakes, afros, a scene where the good guy kills tons of badguys with a grenade because why not dammit.

   Checks off a majority of the features a Blaxploitation film would have. Makes one wonder if Pam Grier, the original… more

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7. Uuh Hell

   This film was clearly a labor of love for those who made it. It's just that well, that doesn't guarantee a good movie. It also l

   What I can see from the trailer is that the film is about a military veteran turned PI who is trying to rid Georgia of crime. Only it's "comedic"!

   What makes this comedic? Well, the lead actor hikes his highwater pants up Urkel style, wears a pair of women's glasses (lopsided for extra comedy), a headband of some type, and talks like he's been on the wrong side of a few dozen head injuries.

   At times this feels like it was shot Borat style, where not everyone is aware that a movie is being made. At other times you can tell that everyone is giving it their best.

   The reviews on LetterboxHD are just hilarious!

   This film was clearly a labor of love for those who made it. It's just that well, that doesn't guarantee a good movie. It also l

   What I can see from the trailer is that the film is about a military veteran turned PI who is trying to rid Georgia of crime. Only it's "comedic"!

   What makes this comedic? Well, the lead actor hikes his highwater pants up Urkel style, wears a pair of women's glasses (lopsided for extra comedy), a headband of some type, and talks like he's been on the wrong side of a few dozen head injuries.

   … more

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8. The Tattoo Connection (1978)

   Jim Kelly and Bolo Yeung collab again after Enter the Dragon in this film about an American insurance investigator tracking down a famous diamond stolen by a local criminal organization in Hong Kong.

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190060/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_6_act

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9. Black Mama White Mama (1973)

   A classic prison, Filipino, gangster, revolutionary movie. A film starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov. Set during the time that the Marcos Dynasty launched Martial Law in the Philippines, the film is about a black prostitute and a white revolutionary who must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.

   Riff Material includes:
   - A premise loosely inspired by The Defiant Ones (1958)
   - Jeeps going through rivers
   - Brent (Markov) goes commando to throw off scent dogs

   Trivia: Pam almost died during the production of this film. She was bedridden for a month, with a fever at times of 105F.

   Full notice! If riffed as well as other early films starring Pam Grier, it may have to be released as a MP3 file. Nude scenes are on default in Pam's early films. The reason? Pam Grier told The Rolling Stone she chose to be nude in many of her early films because she wanted to push the limits of how Black women were perceived in the acting world. She said, "I call it the 'Brown Nipple Revolution.' We weren't the epitome of sexual attraction for the male audience, in movies, magazines, anything. We were told our brown nipples weren't attractive. I was trying to break that line of what was acceptable in society."

   Now you know... and knowing is half the battle.

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068282/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_97_act

   A classic prison, Filipino, gangster, revolutionary movie. A film starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov. Set during the time that the Marcos Dynasty launched Martial Law in the Philippines, the film is about a black prostitute and a white revolutionary who must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.

   Riff Material includes:
   - A premise loosely inspired by The Defiant Ones (1958)
   - Jeeps going through rivers
   - Brent (Markov) goes commando to throw off scent dogs

   Trivia: Pam almost died during the production of this film.… more

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10. Friday Foster

    Pam Grier's 11th and final film for American International Pictures (all made between 1971--1975).

    The film is based on a newspaper comic strip of the same name by Jim Lawrence and Jorje Longeron that debuted January 18, 1970 and ran in 80 to 100 papers. It was the first mainstream comic strip with a black lead character. The end credits thank Chicago Tribune Syndication, which licensed the comic strip to newspapers. Ironically, the movie was released after the strip ended in 1974.

    Riff material includes:

    • Friday (Pam Grier) stealing a Hearst and Milk Truck (Dated reference ahead)
    • Hustling little brother
    • The Runway scene

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073019/

    Pam Grier's 11th and final film for American International Pictures (all made between 1971--1975).

    The film is based on a newspaper comic strip of the same name by Jim Lawrence and Jorje Longeron that debuted January 18, 1970 and ran in 80 to 100 papers. It was the first mainstream comic strip with a black lead character. The end credits thank Chicago Tribune Syndication, which licensed the comic strip to newspapers. Ironically, the movie was released after the strip ended in 1974.

    Riff material includes:

    • Friday (Pam Grier) stealing a Hearst and Milk Truck (Dated reference ahead)
    • Hustling little brother
    • … more
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11. The Boy and the Pirates

    Today Bert I. Gordon died at the age of 100, RIP.
    Here is a film I found by him that makes a great riff. A 1960 adventure film with his daughter who you should recognize from Tormented as well as an episode of The Twilight Zone along with former child star Charles Herbert.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053672/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Pirates

    I tried finding a trailer, no luck yet.

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12. Future Cops (1993)

    You want a fever dream of Bootleg films? Here's one for the masses, fellow Riffers. Future Cops is a 1993 Hong Kong film that is summed up as Street Fighter II meets The Terminator and Doraemon... it makes sense in context.

    One of the most bizarre films to ever embrace the Hong Kong action style, directed by Wong Jing (the same year he did the live-action City Hunter) and very very very loosely based on Street Fighter, in the sense that the characters look like Street Fighter characters, but they're not named after them, except for Chun Li, but only on the 'Chun' Future Cops is a rather unique experience.

    Riff material package comes with:

    • Lots and lots of Hong Kong famous pop singers/actors are in this such as Andy Lau, Dicky Cheung, Simon Yam, Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok and the God of Songs himself Jacky Cheung as Broom man (Not Guile)... Though to be fair, all of them are no stranger to martial art or action movies.
    • The fact that this came BEFORE the Hollywood Movie with Jean-Claude Van Dammit!
    • So Bad, It's Good Territory... well at least compared to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Sorry Lana. (Define Irony: Robin Shou was in Legend of Chun-Li and sadly wasn't approached for any character in this bizarre Hong Kong film even though he was in Hong Kong around the time this film was made and he had already been in plenty of Hong Kong films before Mortal Kombat 1995)

    Here's the trailer. Viewer warning! Turn off your brain before you watch this film.

    https://youtu.be/6WUNQYWsnHg

    Here's the description on the film:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106545/

    You want a fever dream of Bootleg films? Here's one for the masses, fellow Riffers. Future Cops is a 1993 Hong Kong film that is summed up as Street Fighter II meets The Terminator and Doraemon... it makes sense in context.

    One of the most bizarre films to ever embrace the Hong Kong action style, directed by Wong Jing (the same year he did the live-action City Hunter) and very very very loosely based on Street Fighter, in the sense that the characters look like Street Fighter characters, but they're not named after them, except for Chun Li, but only… more

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13. Marco

    This insanely crazy movie about Marco Polo Stars Desi Arnaz Jr as Marco Polo and Zero Mostel as Genghis Khan. AND it's a musical!! It is as absolutely insane as it sounds. Watch the trailer for this bloated turkey and it will rise to the top of your list.
    
    If Desi Arnaz Jr and zero mostel aren't enough, there's a whole bit about Marco Polo inventing spaghetti with Jack Weston (yes, of Willy Wonka), and then there's the fact it was filmed at Toho Studios but is a Rankin-Bass production (live action!) It's just crazy. I'm kind of upset I'd never known about it till a few weeks ago.
    But shocked this has never been featured before. Just crazy.
    The whole film is on YouTube but the trailer is enough to show it's worthiness for Riffing.
    https://youtu.be/NzKxOjrNpQU

    This insanely crazy movie about Marco Polo Stars Desi Arnaz Jr as Marco Polo and Zero Mostel as Genghis Khan. AND it's a musical!! It is as absolutely insane as it sounds. Watch the trailer for this bloated turkey and it will rise to the top of your list.
    
    If Desi Arnaz Jr and zero mostel aren't enough, there's a whole bit about Marco Polo inventing spaghetti with Jack Weston (yes, of Willy Wonka), and then there's the fact it was filmed at Toho Studios but is a Rankin-Bass production (live action!) It's just crazy. I'm kind of upset I'd… more

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14. Around the World Under the Sea

    A 1966 underwater sci fi adventure film with Lloyd Bridges. He leads a submarine crew in it. It's not terrible, but it's not great. It make a good one to riff!
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_Under_the_Sea
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060126/
    https://youtu.be/R5p189pKmOY

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15. The People Under the Stairs (1991)

    Two adults and a 13 year old called Fool (Based from a Tarot card) break into a racist Landlord's house to discover a horrific secret. Riff material includes:

    • Wes Craven film
    • Mommy and Daddy are played by Wendy Robie and Everett McGill, who played married couple Ed and Nadine Hurley on Twin Peaks.
    • Ving Rhames has to deal with a man who owns a gimp suit. Twice.
    • The Hero in the film is called Fool. Sounds like a Blaxploitation name straight from the 1970s films.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_28_wr

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16. Something Wonderful Happens

    Something Wonderful Happens ia a 1957 short by General Electric pushing their "Live Better Electrically" campaign. But the sub plot of the boy Eric and his attraction to Kathy, a woman his mother's age, is downright creepy. https://youtu.be/rSFy2LKzFHk

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17. Shipwrecked

    A Disney family film from 1991. I loved this film as a kid. But now as an adult, not as much. The cinematography is still pretty good as is the music, but it be a good one to riff.

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18. Foxy Brown (1974)

    Curious Riffers... Riff if you dare. This film here is on the Video Nasties List. Foxy Brown is a 1974 Blaxploitation film, one of the first to feature a strong female lead—specifically, Pam Grier, the original Action Girl.

    Riff material includes:

    • 70s is everywhere
    • An early fight scene shows a criminal pushing a carriage in front of a car, which fortunately turns before impact.
    • Foxy's got a black belt. In bar stools.
    • Foxy's bra doubles as a holster for a small handgun, though she carries it under the band at her side and not in her cleavage.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071517/

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19. The Fan (1996)

    Okay I just put one film with this title, might as well as do this one! This is a 1996 thriller directed by Tony Scott where Wesley Snipes plays a baseball player and Robert DeNiro plays an obsessed fan!

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20. The Fan (1981)

    Not the 90s film with Wesley Snipes of the same name! This is a poorly made horror from 1981 with legendary actors James Gardner and Lauren Bacall. (How did they get in this???) Bacall plays a stage actress who gets stalked.
    James Gardner called this the worse film he was ever in.

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