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Michael Allin (writer)
Leigh Chapman (writer)
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Release Date:
19 April 1974 (USA) more
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Black, bold and bloody mean!
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Isaac Hayes ... Mac 'Truck' Turner
Yaphet Kotto ... Harvard Blue
Alan Weeks ... Jerry
Annazette Chase ... Annie

Nichelle Nichols ... Dorinda
Sam Laws ... Nate Dinwiddie
Paul Harris ... Richard Leroy 'Gator' Johnson
Charles Cyphers ... Drunk
John Kramer ... Desmond
Scatman Crothers ... Duke
Dick Miller ... Fogarty
Bob Harris ... Snow
Jac Emil ... Reno
Stan Shaw ... Fontana
Wendell Tucker ... Wendell
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Also Known As:
Black Bullet
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91 min
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Originally developed as a film for actor Robert Mitchum. After Mitchum, 'James Coburn' was attached to star as Truck Turner, but that fell through as well. Having already invested in the script, American International Pictures decided to turn it into an "urban picture" and cast a black actor. Dick Anthony Williams, best know for his work in The Mack (1973) and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) was initially cast, but was quickly replaced by Isaac Hayes, who wanted to get into acting. It was also felt that Hayes had a bigger name draw than Williams. more
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Truck Turner: Anybody ask you what happened, tell 'em you been hit by a truck: Mac 'Truck' Turner! more

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Mac vs the mack pack., 23 August 2000
Author: Stephen Nisbet from Adelaide, Australia

Truck Turner is an ex-football star, built like a Mack truck. Fortunately his name IS Mac (though why they released it as BLACK BULLET in Australia is beyond me) which makes for a sensible nickname. There is practically nothing else remotely sensible thereon in, when Mac goes head-to-head with a bunch of no-good…well, macks (pimps).

It is a typically paradoxical blaxpolitation film. It serves as both a reminder why the genre were so enjoyable - brazen heroes and villains, loads of sexy chicks for each, a top soul soundtrack - and why it had to die eventually - the burden of uninspired cashing in, here there and everywhere.

BLACK BULLET is as b-grade as they come, and it's surprisingly nasty in places. With a similar cast and crew to the far-superior BLACK BELT JONES (a blaxploitation gem), you expect tongue in cheek, but by the time you've heard the world `bitch' a thousand times, it starts to lose its comic gleam.

But at the end of the day it's all in good fun. It's just a shame the modern gangstas didn't get the joke.



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