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Old 25th July 2016, 08:00 PM
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The Black Bounty Killer (1975) Boss Nigger (original title)

Apart from the rather inflammatory title,the even more inflammatory theme song and the publicity it must of garnered at the time of release.Boss as my dvd box calls it,is a fairly straight forward western,in fact its A-Team style bloodless violence seems at odds with early 1970's cinema,which post Vietnam was up to its hoofs in bloodshed.Basically Boss and Amos (Fred Williamson and D'Urville Martin) are two bounty hunters,who manage to convince the Mayor and the other town councillors to make Fred Williamson the new town's sheriff. MMMMM very similar to a certain Blazing Saddles (1974) film a year previous,and to be honest you do some times feel you are watching a parody,especially whenever the Shaft style music kicks in over the soundtrack. No Blaxploitation film would be without its white bad guy,and this role is played by king of the bad guys for hire William Smith as Jed Clayton who was also killed by Fred Williamson in the film Hammer. Fred Williamson it has to said cuts a cool figure in his black leather jacket,Williamson role in this has been compared to Eastwood's man with no name,but Williamson is much more chatty and suave compared to Eastwood's more sombre gringo.D'Urville Martin who also appeared in Dolemite and a whole lot of 1970s TV and blaxploitation movies,has a more subservient role and is basically Williamson comedy sidekick,even in blaxploitation movies there's pecking order.And where would we be without a corrupt mayor stirring everything up in the background,Mayor Griffin (R.G. Armstrong, you may remember as the head devil worshipper from Race with Devil). Once you get past the films title,and the way white cast use the N word,Boss is a fairly well made western,directed by no less than Mr Creature from the Lagoon Jack Arnold,some what of a departure from his usual monster movies and TV fare he directed.The only down side to blaxploitation movies is that it gives Tarantino to many daft ideas for films.
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