Get Christie Love! (1974) (TV)

Director:

William A. Graham

Writers:

Dorothy Uhnak (novel)
George Kirgo (teleplay)

Release Date:

22 January 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime

Tagline:

She's one bad mamma jamma!

Plot:

A beautiful policewoman goes undercover to break up a drug ring. |

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Policewoman | Undercover | Blaxploitation | Exclamation Point In Title

Cast

Teresa Graves	...	Christie Love
Harry Guardino	...	Captain Casey Reardon
Louise Sorel	...	Helena Varga
Paul Stevens	...	Enzo Cortino
Ron Rifkin	...	Normand
Lynne Holmes	...	Celia Jackson
Lee Paul	...	Max Loomis
Titos Vandis	...	Spiliolis
Tracey Roberts	...	Gwen Fenley
William Hansen	...	Dr. Shepard
Andy Romano	...	Sergeant Seymour Greenberg
Davis Roberts	...	Myron Jones
Bill Henderson	...	Sergeant Stoner Martin
Debbie Dozier	...	Amy (as Deborah Dozier)
Darlene Conley	...	Virginia (as Darleen Conley)

Also Known As:

Get Christy Love (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

USA:74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:15

Company:

Wolper Productions

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Watchable TV movie thriller

Get Christie Live is a mild but pretty likable 70's TV movie that was the pilot for an apparently short lived show. It stars Teresa Graves as a feisty black female police officer, searching for a ledger with details of a local kingpins drug operation. Its not a terribly thrilling film,nor does it provide the sleazy kicks or gritty intensity of the best crime thrillers of the era on account of its TV movie status, but it is perfectly watchable, with some decent performances and a few exciting moments. As well as Teresa Graves, Harry Guardino (appeared in one or other Dirty Harry picture) and Paul Stevens are those who I recollect being good. Guardino is Graves' flirtatious superior and Stevens plays the bad guy, who seems pleasant enough as far as evildoers go and in a nice character quirk, wants to move into film distribution, particularly samurai pictures. Graves is the real highlight here though, keeping the whole film afloat with her fresh, energetic portrayal, convincingly badass at times when she has to take out various goons and quite funny. The plot isn't all that interesting and just about enough to fill the short running time, whilst the film ends about exactly when it should. I can't say I was bowled over by this film but its pretty fun as far as this sort of thing goes and had I seen it when it originally aired I probably would have wanted to check out the rest of the series, so I guess it does its job. Worth checking out if you have the time but not something to search too hard for or get hyped up up about.