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“Hey I Lost My Eye for This Gang” – Jack Hill’s SWITCHBLADE SISTERS Available on Blu-ray April 20th From Arrow Video

“No, let me give you some advice, cop. You can beat us, chain us, lock us up. But we’re gonna be back, understand? And when we do, cop, you better keep your ass off our turf, or we’ll BLOW IT OFF! Ya dig? We’re Jezebels, cop – remember that name. We’ll be back!”

Jack Hill’s SWITCHBLADE SISTERS (1975) will be available on Blu-ray April 20th From Arrow Video

THE WILDEST GIRL GANG THAT EVER BLASTED THE STREETS!

From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters!

Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of inner city girl gang The Dagger Debs, meets her match when new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) moves into the neighborhood. Mistrust and conflict turn to friendship as the girls end up in Juvenile Detention together at the mercy of abusive guards. Meanwhile, The Dagger Debs male counterparts The Silver Daggers have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs (Chase Newhart). But when the girls get back on the streets, a planned retaliation strike in tandem with The Silver Daggers backfires and puts Lace in hospital. Maggie assumes control, teaming up with Muff (Marlene Clark) and her gang of African-American militants from across town to declare all out war. But there s a traitor in their midst…

Filled with sharp, clever dialogue and tongue in cheek humor, this Shakespeare-influenced girl gang/women in prison/action movie medley is a stone cold grindhouse classic!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
  • Original uncompressed mono audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Brand new audio commentary by historians/critics Samm Deighan & Kat Ellinger
  • We Are The Jezebels, an archival documentary featuring director Jack Hill, producer John Prizer, casting director Geno Havans, production designer B.B. Neel, stunt coordinator Bob Minor, and stars Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner, and Chase Newhart
  • Gangland: The locations of Switchblade Sisters, an archival documentary in which Jack Hill and filmmaker Elijah Drenner revisit the shooting locations of Switchblade Sisters
  • Jack Hill and Joanne Nail at the Grindhouse Film Festival, a 2007 archival interview with the director and actor
  • Interview with Jack Hill, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, an archival 1990 s interview with the director and stars in conversation with Johnny Legend
  • Galleries of behind the scenes stills, international posters, video covers, and lobby cards
  • Theatrical trailers
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Heather Drain

Pam Grier in FOXY BROWN – Screens Sunday at The Missouri History Museum

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“You pink-ass corrupt honky judge, take your little wet noodle outta here and if you see a man anywhere send him in because I do need a MAN!”

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FOXY BROWN screens at the Missouri History Museum Sunday, October 11th at 5:00pm as part of the St. Louis Black Film Festival ‘s A SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES. Admission is $5
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For a complete rundown of all of the A SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES screenings, go HERE

St. Louis Black Film Festival presents A SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES. The 3-day film fest takes place at Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112) October 9th through the 11th and will feature the films of black stars Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll and Juanita Moore.

AARP members may attend each movie showing free of charge (One free entry per membership card) when they show their AARP membership card at the entrance. Visit AARP-St. Louis volunteers at our table at the St. Louis Classic Black Film Festival before each screening to learn more about what AARP is doing in the St. Louis region.

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If you dig Blaxsploitation films the way I do, FOXY BROWN will not disappoint. It’s a wild story of sex, drugs, vengeance and adventure. Best of all it features my favorite actress Pam Grier, the undisputed queen of the genre – busty, tough, and sweet (well, mostly just busty and tough) – in probably her most iconic role. FOXY BROWN is one of the best movies ever made and do not miss your chance to see it on the big screen.

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When a pusher by the name of “Link Brown” (Antonio Fargas) loses half a kilo of of cocaine worth about $20,000, his suppliers become irate and send two thugs to work him over. Desperately needing help he calls his sister “Foxy Brown” (Pam Grier) to rescue him from the two goons. She manages to get to him before they can grab him and puts him up at her place for a few days completely unaware of the exact nature of his predicament. In addition to that, her boyfriend “Michael Anderson” (Terry Carter) is an undercover cop who has just undergone a face-lift and assumed a new identity because the same suppliers have a contract out on his head. Things begin to take a turn for the worse and Foxy Brown suddenly has a score or two to settle with some major league drug dealers.

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Like many blaxploitation films during this time the dialogue and fashions cause FOXY BROWN to seem dated, but in a good way! FOXY BROWN was actually written and shot to be a sequel to director Jack Hill’s previous film, COFFY where Grier played a nurse with a bad attitude and a penchant for taking her aggression out on mother**kers who wronged her. For some reason, the studio forced Hill to make Foxy Brown stand-alone at the last minute, changing… well, nothing really.

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The opening credits to FOXY BROWN are badass, like a funked-out version of a Bond intro with Foxy dancing around in front of multi-colored backgrounds, all the while rocking her outfits from the film. The title sequence employ almost every trick in the title design book, from image rotoscoping and solarization to multi-layered optical animation and colorization.

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One of my favorite scenes in FOXY BROWN has to do with one of Foxy’s friends, who, though she is supposed to be laying low (people need to “lay low” often in Foxy’s world), wanders into a lesbian bar and Foxy has to get her out. This lesbian bar needs to be seen to be believed. All of the women dress like teamsters, only more macho. And in a wonderful endorsement of equal rights, these female bar patrons are just as violent, rude, and prone to fight over nothing as any beer-belching men.

Trust me – don’t miss FOXY BROWN when it screens at the Missouri History Museum Sunday, October 11th at 5:00pm

The St. Louis Classic Black Film Festival audiences are a mix of African-American, culturally diverse, sophisticated, film lovers and the SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES will be a great way to celebrate the careers of these talented women, especially Pam Grier!

A Facebook invite for the SALUTE TO CLASSIC BLACK ACTRESSES event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/745076718954627/

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