Willie Dynamite (Roscoe Orman – yes, Gordon from Sesame Street!) is a flamboyant but down-on-his-luck New York pimp. His pimpmobile (a tricked out metallic purple and gold Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado with pipes on the side and a leopard skin interior) is constantly getting towed, his seven girls are all getting busted, he’s been arrested on suspicion of armed robbery, *and* he’s being audited.
But Willie D is determined to be the number one pimp in the city. Meanwhile, ex-hooker social worker Cora (Diana Sands) – “consider me a consumer protection agency” – is trying to bring him down and change his ways for the better.
Rather than a linear story, Willie Dynamite is really a loosely connected collection of vignettes. There’s no nudity and little violence but it’s a fast-paced, camp and very entertaining Blaxploitation romp.
The outfits are also a treat and definitely some of the most ridiculous ever seen in the genre.
This was Diana Sands final film before she succumbed to Leiomyosarcoma, aged just 39.
Willie Dynamite
Roscoe Orman Cora Williams
Diana Sands Robert Daniels
Thalmus Rasulala Pashen
Joyce Walker Bell
Roger Robinson Celli
George Murdock Pointer
Albert Hall Honey
Norma Donaldson Sola
Juanita Brown Willie’s Mother
Royce Wallace Gorgia
Judith Brown Connie
Marilyn Coleman Scatback
Mary Charlotte Wilcox Pearl
Marcia McBroom Willie’s Lawyer
Jack Bernardi
Director
Gilbert Moses
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But Willie D is determined to be the number one pimp in the city. Meanwhile, ex-hooker social worker Cora (Diana Sands) – “consider me a consumer protection agency” – is trying to bring him down and change his ways for the better.
Willie Dynamite
Pashen
Willie’s Mother
