Coffy (1973)

In a role that turned her overnight into the foremost 70s blaxploitation cult priestess, Pam Grier (of Jackie Brown fame) is the explosive Coffy; nurse by day, the conscientious hospital worker picks up her gun by night and eliminates the inner city drug kingpins who got her sister hooked ? treating viewers to generous flashes of skin in the process. Blaxploitation cinema receives its first female star, Roy Ayers provides a superb soundtrack and legendary director Jack Hill takes the wheel in a sleek, sexy revenge film that makes Superfly and Shaft seem like harmless kids’ movies. The rest is history.

Director: Jack Hill
Screenwriter: Jack Hill
Cinematography: Paul Lohmann
Music: Roy Ayers
Editing: Charles McClelland
Cast: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott

USA, Color
English, 86΄
Format: 35mm