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Coffy

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Coffy
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R,1hr 31min
Genre:
Action
Release:
1973
Director:
Jack Hill
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui  ...more
Synopsis: Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime and deciding to fight back. Her little 11-year old sister is a hopeless addict, the police can't help, and poor Nurse "Coffy" Coffin (Pam Grier) has no choice but to take the law into her own hands. Posing as a Jamaican prostitute, Coffy infiltrates the lairs of pimp King George (Robert DoQui) and kingpin pusher Vitroni (Allan Arbus). ... Full Synopsis
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Robert Firsching, AMG Review
Coffy is one of the more lively blaxploitation films of the period, with some silly touches like genre standby Sid Haig as a racist Russian goon named Omar, puny Arbus as the perverted gangster (he calls Coffy a "wildcat from the tropical jungle"), and a catfight in which Coffy beats up a room full of scantily clad hookers. There's also a junkie hooker whose "man" is a giant leather-clad lesbian named ... Full Review
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Pam Grier
Coffy
Booker Bradshaw
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Robert DoQui
King George
William Elliott
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