The Black Gestapo (1975)

Director:

Lee Frost

Writers:

Wes Bishop (writer)
Lee Frost (writer)

Release Date:

March 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

The New Master Race!

Plot:

General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts...

Plot Keywords:

Mob | Vigilante | Power Mad | Rifle | Ghetto

Cast

Rod Perry	...	Gen. Ahmed
Charles Robinson	...	Col. Kojah (as Charles P. Robinson)
Phil Hoover	...	Vito
Edward Cross	...	Delmay (as Ed Cross)
Angela Brent	...	Marsha
Wes Bishop	...	Ernest
Lee Frost	...	Vincent
Donna Young	...	White whore (as Donna Desmond)
Charles Howerton	...	Joe
Rai Tasco	...	Dr. Lisk
David Bryant	...	Drug pusher
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Uschi Digard	...	Kojah's Girl
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage)

Also Known As:

Black Enforcers (USA) (alternative title)
Ghetto Warriors (USA) (alternative title)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:18 | USA:R | Iceland:16 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Baadasssss Cinema (2002) (TV)

Afro's, and Stormtroopers Oh My!

Well, the version of this film that I own comes in a 4-pack of Black Vengance, found at Best Buy's bargain movie bin, it contains other genere winners like Black Fist 2, and The Black Six. Its a re-release of the material originally done in the early 1970s firmly rooted in the black power social movement, utilizing the film Blacksploitation title with liberty.

The film its self runs something like 90 minutes, contains several scenes of pointless nudity, poorly coreographed violence, and multiple overdubs of Hitler-era Germany. Language is also a mix of obscenities and jive-lingo. Children really shouldnt see this movie until they are old enough to understand the historical context that produces it.

It centers around General Ahmed's creation of a Black People's Army [read: Brownshirt revolution], that aims to end the gross injustices exercised on the local black populace by a half-assed white 'mob,' interested in extortion money, and beating up prostitutes. After a black nurse is raped by the 'mob', Col. Kojah enters to recruit a special black response unit of commands that begin extracting militant revenge on the white community. Soon after, Kojah's group overpowers everything else Ahmed's ideas stand for, and the Black Gestapo militant unit superceeds it. Most of the movie then focus'es on Kojah's unit [read SS], bedecked in the finest Nazi wears [yes, explicitly done], and the struggle of pressure versus resistance to impose societal justices.

Several themes are somewhat interesting, including the increased violence towards women by both repsonse units, the characterization and sexuality of the women [with unnecessary nudity and sex scenes] as well as a theme of mans' degenerative nation, once given a sip of power. All in all, I'd never pay money to see this in a theater, but for comedic relief it is quite funny. Several social issues can be extrapolated, and I could see how the political/social movement of the times had strongly impacted the final version of the film. Even the end of the film, culminating in the assination of Kojah's soldiers and he himself, appear to summarize the views of the then powerful movement that was destined to implode.