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The Black Gestapo
Why this pick
Pairs Darktown Strutters’ unapologetically 1970s Black action-cinema energy with broad, provocative satire and a similarly wild, low-budget sense of escalation.
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MOVIE1975 1h 30m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Black Dynamite
Why this pick
A loving modern recreation of the era’s visual texture and manic blaxploitation rhythms, full of deadpan absurdity, stylized fights, and knowingly extravagant plotting.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Shirley Washington
Theda
Roger E. Mosley
Mellow
Christopher Joy
Wired
Norman Bartold
Commander Cross
Charles Knapp
Officer Tubbins
Edward Marshall
Officer Emmo
Milt Kogan
Officer Babel
Sam Laws
Philo Rasberry