Get your Halloween pimp costume ideas from this blaxploitation cheapie classic. The suits are loud, the ties are wild and you’ve gotta get a load of these hats.
We’ve all heard of the hooker with a heart gold; this film gives us a pimp with a heart of… bronze, at least. The Baron (that’s what they call him) IS a nice guy when he’s not gunning down an entire room full of even worse people or forcing a sadist’s hand into a kitchen sink garbage disposal and then flipping the switch. It’s a Breaking Bad kinda situation here. The Baron is his city’s top pimp Monday through Friday and then an awfully tired family man on the weekends. His wife and children are lovely, the front lawn of his house is kept trim and his white neighbors think the world of him.
Come Monday though, it’s back to work, back to the streets, back to the people trying to kill him, back to the two racial slur-spouting cops who watch his every move and back to his red-and-yellow Rolls Royce that has machine guns built into it like the Batmobile. Meanwhile, the wife merely thinks he’s way too busy with some executive job that he made up.
I’m not saying that it makes any sense, but it’s some entertaining crap that moves at a snap. Funniest part: When The Baron enters a barroom wager with a rival pimp over a pool table. The other shoots well until he loses by sinking the cueball. While The Baron walks away the winner, his rival grips the cueball in a rage and shouts at it “You round, white, honky ball!”