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Jack Hill (writer)
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13 June 1973 (USA)
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No one sleeps when they mess with Coffy! more
Plot:
Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin...
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A Conversation with Sid Haig
(From Fangoria. 19 October 2009, 6:42 AM, PDT)
America's Bad Kids Episode 4: My Exploitation Breakfast!
(From Icons of Fright. 12 March 2009, 10:17 PM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 19 October 2009, 6:42 AM, PDT)
America's Bad Kids Episode 4: My Exploitation Breakfast!
(From Icons of Fright. 12 March 2009, 10:17 PM, PDT)
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Pam Brier is a sensation!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Pam Grier | ... | Coffy |
 | Booker Bradshaw | ... | Howard Brunswick |
 | Robert DoQui | ... | King George |
| William Elliott | ... | Carter |
| Allan Arbus | ... | Arturo Vitroni |
 | Sid Haig | ... | Omar |
| Barry Cahill | ... | McHenry |
 | Lee de Broux | ... | Nick |
| Ruben Moreno | ... | Ramos |
| Lisa Farringer | ... | Jeri |
 | Carol Locatell | ... | Priscilla (as Carol Lawson) |
 | Linda Haynes | ... | Meg |
| John Perak | ... | Aleva |
| Mwako Cumbuka | ... | Grover |
| Morris Buchanan | ... | Sugarman |
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91 min | Germany:84 min
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American International Pictures lost the chance to make Cleopatra Jones (1973) and made this film instead, which ended up grossing more money in spite of a smaller budget.
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Continuity: Vetroni's death: Coffy shoots Vetroni full in the chest with a shotgun, while he is standing in a swimming pool with his heart at the waterline. Vetroni is facing the camera and we see the blast, but there's no blood.
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[Priscilla threatens Coffy with a knife, and Coffy reacts by shattering a wine bottle and threatening her with the jagged edge]
Coffy: So, you wanna play with knives, huh? Well you picked the wrong player!
Priscilla: No, no please look I didn't mean nothin'! Please!
Coffy: Now I'm gonna give you another slice to match the one you got from that dope-pushin' pimp, unless you tell me where he keeps the stuff!
Priscilla: No, please! He'll kill me! Ow... ALRIGHT, alright! He's got a fireplace! It's in a box under the ashes!
[Priscilla's tough-looking black lesbian lover/pimp returns suddenly]
Priscilla: Harriet! Harriet!
Harriet: What the hell is going on here?
Priscilla: She busted in here tryin' to make me! Get her outta here!
Harriet: Come on, bitch!
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Coffy: So, you wanna play with knives, huh? Well you picked the wrong player!
Priscilla: No, no please look I didn't mean nothin'! Please!
Coffy: Now I'm gonna give you another slice to match the one you got from that dope-pushin' pimp, unless you tell me where he keeps the stuff!
Priscilla: No, please! He'll kill me! Ow... ALRIGHT, alright! He's got a fireplace! It's in a box under the ashes!
[Priscilla's tough-looking black lesbian lover/pimp returns suddenly]
Priscilla: Harriet! Harriet!
Harriet: What the hell is going on here?
Priscilla: She busted in here tryin' to make me! Get her outta here!
Harriet: Come on, bitch!
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Referenced in The Making of 'Kill Bill' (2003) (TV)
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King George
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By 1973 AIP had struck paydirt many times over with Black Caesar and its sequel, the two Slaughter films, several black/horror hybrids like Blacula, and of course the jungle prison sleazies, and now their first black superchick flick Coffy went into production. Jack Hill (The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage) was at the helm again, along with the tried-and-tested formula of Pam Grier and Sid Haig. Coffy is a nurse by day and avenging angel at night, tracking down the dealers who got her sister hooked on the Big H. She opens the film blowing the head off a dealer with a shotgun, then follows the trail of dead bodies to a bald hood named Omar and her crooked politician boyfriend, who she shoots in the balls. "Revenge is a virtue", the soundtrack blares; critics applauded the liberated ballsy lead character while decrying the level of sex and sadism. As revenge actioners go, Coffy don't come better. Grier in her first lead role is a sensation. Little wonder Tarantino tailor-made a film for her.