February 11th, 2019
Writer: Jerry Jones and Rudy Ray Moore
Starring: Rudy Ray Moore, Jerry Jones, D'Urville Martin
Budget: $100,000
Quote: "I got your boy hanging. You no-business, born-insecure, junkyard motherfucker!"
Trivia: At one point, the New York Times called the film as the "Citizen Kane" of Blaxploitation (Black Exploitation films).
Dolemite. Dolemite. Where do I begin? Dolemite is the blaxploitation classic. Bar none. Shaft and Super Fly might have had more success (thanks largely to the soundtracks by Issac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield no doubt), but Dolemite was the movie that really took the pimp-turned-vigilante idea and really ran with it. By the time Dolemite came out in 1975, the blaxploitation film genre was already in full swing having begun in 1971 with Sweet Sweetback's Baadassssss Song (a movie I'm looking forward to reviewing soon). Sweet Sweetback and the blaxploitation films that followed generally have a nearly all black cast, black heroes (usually criminals turned vigilantes), funk soundtracks, and heavy use of violence and sex. Dolemite takes all these elements and dives in head first.
