At Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Pam Grier | ... | Friday Foster | |
| Yaphet Kotto | ... | Colt Hawkins | |
| Godfrey Cambridge | ... | Ford Malotte | |
| Thalmus Rasulala | ... | Blake Tarr | |
| Eartha Kitt | ... | Madame Rena | |
| Jim Backus | ... | Enos Griffith | |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Noble Franklin | |
| Ted Lange | ... | Fancy Dexter | |
| Tierre Turner | ... | Cleve | |
| Paul Benjamin | ... | Sen. David Lee Hart | |
| Jason Bernard | ... | Charles Foley | |
| Ed Cambridge | ... | Lt. Jake Wayne (as Edmund Cambridge) | |
| Julius Harris | ... | Monk Riley | |
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Rosalind Miles | ... | Clorils Boston |
| Carl Weathers | ... | Yarbro | |
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Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow". Written by Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
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FORD MALOTTE - is yen was for men - not for Friday Foster! See more »Genres:
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1 August 1977 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Assassinio all'aeroporto See more »Filming Locations:
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"Friday Foster" was based on a newspaper comic strip that debuted January 18, 1970, by writer Jim Lawrence and artist Jorje Longeron. It was the first mainstream comic strip with a black lead character. The movie gives a "thank you" credit to Chicago Tribune Syndication, which licensed the comic strip to newspapers. Ironically, by the time the movie was released in 1975, the comic strip was no more, having ended the previous year. See more »Goofs
The finale takes place on a ranch near Washington, D.C. yet the mountainous surroundings give away the Southern California shooting location. See more »Quotes
Friday Foster: [to Blake] You treat a person like a person... and a woman like a woman.See more »
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Surprisingly mild vehicle for Pam Grier, targeted at the black urban audiences of the 1970s, isn't terribly good despite a varied roster of bemused supporting talents, including Jim Backus, Yaphet Kotto, Scatman Crothers, Godfrey Cambridge, Carl Weathers from "Rocky", Ted Lange from "The Love Boat", and Eartha Kitt, hamming it up as usual playing a breathless fashion designer. Grier (looking lovely) is cast as a professional shutterbug tracking down an assassination ring who target black politicians. Campy nonsense is hardly "The Manchurian Candidate", though it does have a fresh moment here and there. The assembly-line shootout-climax is tired, and the film's production seems cheesy, but Kotto just about steals the picture as Grier's sidekick. ** from ****