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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, [ 2 ] she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action , blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures .
The Big Bird Cage is a 1972 American exploitation film of the "women in prison" subgenre. [1] It serves as a non-sequel follow-up to the 1971 film The Big Doll House.The film was written and directed by Jack Hill, and stars Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Anitra Ford, and Carol Speed.
The Big Doll House is a 1971 American women-in-prison film starring Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Brooke Mills, and Pat Woodell.The film follows six female inmates through daily life in a gritty, unidentified tropical prison.
Hit Man is a 1972 American crime film directed by George Armitage [2] and starring Bernie Casey, Pam Grier and Lisa Moore. [3] It is a blaxploitation-themed adaptation of Ted Lewis' 1970 novel Jack's Return Home, more famously adapted as Get Carter (1971), with the action relocated from England to the United States.
Before he became one of the most successful indie filmmakers of the ’90s, the Knoxville-born movie lover was a serious Pam Grier stan, who grew up watching her classic action flicks like Coffy ...
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, and Ron O'Neal. [3] It is the final film directed by Larry Cohen before his death in 2019, [4] though he continued to write screenplays through 2010.
Drum has been born to a white prostitute, who raises him with her black lesbian lover. Drum grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves to the brink of death for the entertainment of the owners, one of whom is a gay Frenchman named Bernard DeMarigny.
The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier who seeks violent revenge against a heroin dealer responsible for her sister's addiction. [8] Produced and distributed by American International Pictures (AIP), Coffy was the third Jack Hill film to star Grier, after The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. Grier would go on to ...