Cleopatra Jones (1973)

cleopatra-jones-1She’s sexy, she’s dangerous, she’s a government agent, she can fight four guys at once and win. She’s not afraid of anyone, but everyone’s afraid of her. She’s Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson), James Bond as a black woman. She’s destroyed 30 million dollars worth of heroin-producing Turkish poppy fields belonging to fat, racial slur-spouting, lesbian crimelord Shelley Winters and now Cleopatra and her nuclear afro are on everyone’s hit list. Winters makes trouble for the inner city LA drug rehab center run by Cleopatra’s man Bernie Casey, so Cleopatra’s gotta fly over and kick everybody’s ass. Fun blaxploitation action movie with all the crucial elements. Written by Max Julien. Directed by actor/director Jack Starrett.