The Mack
1973VOTE NOW
| Cinerama Releasing | Release Date: April 4, 1973 |
Starring:
Carol Speed, Dick Anthony Williams, Don Gordon, George Murdock, Juanita Moore, Max Julien, Paul Harris, Richard Pryor, Roger E. Mosley, William Watson
Summary:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
From its inception, The Mack had more on its mind than delivering a blaxploitation film, a label director Michael Campus always resisted. He shouldn’t have. His film is one of the finest examples of the genre, a smartly executed and deeply ambitious story of crime, corruption, and prostitution, shot on location in Oakland, California.
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It is almost perfect as escapist entertainment -- as a carefully schematized synthesis of fantasies for black audiences. [03 May 1973, p.81]
Incoherent, idiotic and exhilarating. [28 Apr 1996, p.16]
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