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Her name is Diana Jackson, but you can call her T.N.T. When T.N.T.'s brother is killed by ruthless drug dealers, the beautiful young karate expert goes to the most dangerous part of Chinatown to find the killer. In trouble with the law since she was 13, T.N.T. wants no help from the pigs; but she does befriend a Chinaman named Joe, whose impressive martial arts skills prove useful more than once. In her quest for the killer, she'll meet the white drug lord, Sid; Elaine, his bitchy girlfriend; his suspicious Chinese assistant, Ming; and Charlie, his handsome black assistant with criminal ambitions of his own. Before her search is over, she'll find herself making love to Charlie, trading insults with Elaine, and fighting criminals while nude and in the dark. Just call her T.N.T. Written by J. Spurlin
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17 January 1975 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Karate expert Diana 'T.N.T' Jackson (Jeanne Bell) travels to Hong Kong to try and find her missing brother. When friendly club owner Joe tells her that he thinks her brother is dead, having fallen foul of local drug-dealing gangsters, T.N.T goes in search of his killer, looking for revenge.
Produced by Roger Corman, written by cult actor Dick Miller, and directed by prolific Filipino film-maker Cirio H. Santiago, TNT Jackson is a blaxploitation/martial arts hybrid that fails to do justice to either genre. The titular character of Diana 'T.N.T.' Jackson has clearly been modelled on tough blaxploitation babes Coffy and Cleopatra Jones (played respectively by Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson), but Jeanne Bell, an ex-Playboy centrefold, has very little appeal (besides her smashing tits, that is): she's a lousy actress and an even worse martial artist, her fight scenes being some of the least convincing I have ever seen committed to film. She's in good company though, 'cos everyone else in this film is utterly dreadful too.
On paper, the film sounds like it could be a trashy hoot: there's a Chinese guy with butterfly knives who has his elbow broken by one of TNT's pathetic blows, Ms. Jackson takes on a roomful of tough guys while wearing only a pair of black knickers, our heroine is sprung from jail by a Chinese dancing dragon, Bell is replaced by an unconvincing double for the more physically demanding scenes, black gangster Charlie sports a huge afro and some shocking 70s attire (that beret is HUGE!), and in the final fight against her brother's killer, TNT delivers a death blow that goes straight through her opponent's stomach. Unfortunately, the weak fight scenes rapidly become tiresome, the script is absolutely dire and the dull direction makes the film extremely tough going despite its exploitative nature.