The cast list of this blaxploitation caper film (that could easily be defined as a comedy) is a who's who of the genre, and modern classic black cinema as well. With Judy Pace, Paula Kelly, Pam Grier and Margaret Avery among the young ladies alone, it's worth seeing just on those credits. For their talents though, they're upstaged by the scene stealing Royce Wallace as the wheelchair bound wife of Raymond St. Jacques who walks off with the film, her desperation for some loving by her uninterested husband making them like a black version of "The Ropers" from "Three's Company".
The film surrounds a group of black men of different backgrounds who decide that the best way of rising past the white man is to perform the ultimate heist, a theft of $3 million dollars in underworld diamonds. Jack Crowder, St. Jacques, Jim Watkins and Sam Laws are trying to stay ons step ahead of the law which includes Lincoln Kilpatrick, John Lupton and Stewart Bradley.
Even events leading up to the heist is completely cartoon like with plenty of double talk and buffoonish reactions by the white cops. They know something's going on but are far too idiotic to catch up in this road runner and coyote race where the road runner is stealing the coyote's Acme tools. This one gets better as it goes along where as everything unfolds the audience wants the heist to succeed even though it's obvious that they're going to turn on each other towards the end. I definitely see the comparisons to "The Asphalt Jungle".
The film surrounds a group of black men of different backgrounds who decide that the best way of rising past the white man is to perform the ultimate heist, a theft of $3 million dollars in underworld diamonds. Jack Crowder, St. Jacques, Jim Watkins and Sam Laws are trying to stay ons step ahead of the law which includes Lincoln Kilpatrick, John Lupton and Stewart Bradley.
Even events leading up to the heist is completely cartoon like with plenty of double talk and buffoonish reactions by the white cops. They know something's going on but are far too idiotic to catch up in this road runner and coyote race where the road runner is stealing the coyote's Acme tools. This one gets better as it goes along where as everything unfolds the audience wants the heist to succeed even though it's obvious that they're going to turn on each other towards the end. I definitely see the comparisons to "The Asphalt Jungle".