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    Darktown Strutters (1975)

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    A fun blaxploitation-comedy-musical about the fortunes of a motorcycling black female vocal group as their leader,  Syreena (Trina Parks,) investigates the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella (Frances Nealy).

    Along the way, the sisters encounter Commander Louisville Cross (Norman Bartold) a racist, fast-food magnate who made his money with the ‘Sky Hog’ chain (“where the pork ribs are bone suckin’ good”) and looks like Colonel Sanders.

    Cross is plotting to manipulate the black community for his own intentions by cloning their leaders.

    Syreena leads the local black community in a siege of the Cross Foundation estate –  a plantation in the middle of downtown Watts (Los Angeles) with slaves working a cotton field in the front yard – where they are met by Cross’ pig-men and his allies, the Ku Klux Klan.

    Police cars have gigantic sirens, banks have large dollar bills for signs, and a litany of other oversized items give the film an intentionally cartoonish feel. Beneath the superficial layer of gaudy colours and slapstick humour, though, is a razor-sharp critique of race relations in America in the mid-1970s.

    Released in some markets as Get Down and Boogie.

    darktownstrutters

    Syreena
    Trina Parks
    Mellow
    Roger E. Mosley
    Theda
    Shirley Washington
    Miranda
    Bettye Sweet
    Raunchy
    Stan Shaw
    Carmen
    Edna Richardson
    Wired
    Christopher Joy
    V.D.
    Otis Day
    Commander Louisville Cross
    Norman Bartold
    Officer Tubbins
    Charles Knapp
    Officer Emmo
    Edward Marshall
    Officer Hugo
    Dick Miller
    Officer Babel
    Milt Kogan
    Flash
    Gene Simms
    Philo Rasberry
    Sam Laws
    Stuff
    Frankie Crocker
    Lixie
    Della Thomas
    Reverend S. Tilly
    Ed Bakey
    Casabah Volt
    Fuddle Bagley
    Cinderella
    Frances Nealy
    Mrs Parasol
    Barbara Morrison
    Six Bits
    Raymond Allen
    Inspector Fallow
    Charles Woolf
    Bo
    Alvin Childress
    Lorelai
    Zara Cully

    Director
    William Witney

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