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Overview

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Director:
Jack Hill
Writer:
Jack Hill (writer)
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Release Date:
13 June 1973 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Thriller more
Tagline:
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... more | full synopsis
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(4 articles)
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)

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A blaxploitation classic! Possibly Pam Grier's best movie. more (47 total)

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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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min | Germany:84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The idea to hide various weapons in Coffy's afro came from Pam Grier. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Howard Brunswick: You're upset, you can see that don't you?
Coffy: I can see plenty! I can see how every time a kid rips off a car or an appliance store to get a fix, you get your cut.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Making of 'Kill Bill' (2003) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Coffy Baby more

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A blaxploitation classic! Possibly Pam Grier's best movie., 5 March 2003
Author: Infofreak from Perth, Australia

Pam Grier made many movies in the 1970s, but 'Coffy' as much as anything, is the one role on which her reputation as the Queen of blaxploitation rests. After a bit part in a Russ Meyer movie (his classic 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls'), Jack Hill, former Roger Corman protege and director of the creepy cult favourite 'Spider Baby', "discovered" her and gave her two strong roles in his popular chicks-in-chains movies 'The Big Doll House' and 'The Big Bird Cage'. Then Hill wrote and directed 'Coffy', a hugely entertaining revenge thriller that really showcases Pam Grier's talent and charisma to the max. The movie was hugely successful and made Grier an exploitation superstar. Instead of a female James Bond character like Cleopatra Jones, Hill made Coffy a regular working class black woman (a nurse as a matter of fact), who must use her brains and looks to achieve her goal - revenge for the drug addiction of her kid sister. The movie crosses elements seen in the male blaxploitation classics of the period like 'Superfly' and 'Shaft' with the vigilante genre which would really kick off with the success of 'Death Wish' the following year (yup, 'Coffy' PREDATES 'Death Wish', so let's get that straight). Grier is sensational in this movie. She can act, she's tough, she pulls off the action scenes with credibility, and of course she looks great, and there is a fair bit of nudity. Grier went on to movies like 'The Arena', 'Sheba, Baby' and 'Drum' before the blaxploitation boom burst, but it's a pity that she only made one more movie with Jack Hill ('Foxy Brown') because they were a dynamite team bringing out the best in each other. 'Coffy' has some interesting supporting cast members including Allan Arbus (best know to fans of TV's 'M.A.S.H.') as Mob boss Vitroni, future 'Robocop' actor Robert DoQui as flamboyant pimp King George, and the brilliant Sid Haig as the sleazy Omar. Haig was a regular Grier co-star throughout the 1970s and Jack Hill's favourite actor ever since his breakthrough role in 'Spider Baby'. If you really want to understand why so many movie buffs from Quentin Tarantino on down worship Pam Grier then 'Coffy' is THE movie to watch. Arguably her best movie, it's a blaxploitation classic and still great viewing thirty years later! Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in 1970s exploitation or crime movies.

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