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Overview

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Director:
Jonathan Kaplan
Writers:
Michael Allin (writer)
Leigh Chapman (writer)
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Release Date:
19 April 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Thriller more
Tagline:
Black, bold and bloody mean!
Plot:
Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him... more | add synopsis
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Four Blaxploitation Films Off the Beaten Path
 (From IFC. 17 February 2009, 8:09 AM, PST)

Four Blaxploitation Films Off the Beaten Path
 (From IFC. 12 February 2009, 6:52 AM, PST)

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Mac vs the mack pack. more

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Black Bullet
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

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Dorinda: We call her Turnpike, cuz you gotta pay to get on and pay to get off! 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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