Coffy

Director: Jack Hill Jack Hill

Overview

After her sister becomes a heroin addict, a nurse (Pam Grier) takes gun in hand and goes undercover to track down the dealers responsible for her sister's condition.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/09/2015
UPC:	0887090100502
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	R
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	16,361

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Pam Grier	Coffy
Booker Bradshaw	Howard Brunswick
Robert DoQui	King George
William Elliott	Carter
Allan Arbus	Arturo Vitroni,Actor
Sid Haig	Omar
Barry Cahill	McHenry
Morris Buchanan	Sugar-Man
Lee de Broux	Nick
Bob Minor	Studs
John Perak	Aleva
Ruben Moreno	Ramos
Carol Lawson	Priscilla
Linda Haynes	Meg
Lisa Farringer	Jeri
Leslie McRay	Cindy
Mwako Cumbuka	Actor
Roy Ayers	Composer

Technical Credits

Jack Hill

Jack Hill	Director,Screenwriter
Robert A. Papazian	Producer
Salvatore Billitteri	Executive Producer,Producer
Samuel Z. Arkoff	Executive Producer
Buzz Feitshans	Producer
Don Johnson	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Coffy is one of the more lively blaxploitation films of the period, with some silly touches like genre standby Sid Haig as a racist Russian goon named Omar, puny Arbus as the perverted gangster (he calls Coffy a "wildcat from the tropical jungle"), and a catfight in which Coffy beats up a room full of scantily clad hookers. There's also a junkie hooker whose "man" is a giant leather-clad lesbian named Harriet, and DoQui wears one of the gaudiest yellow pimp outfits ever seen on film. Like all revenge films, this one puts its protagonist on dubious moral ground. Not only does Coffy ram heroin needles into people and blow a corrupt councilman's gonads off with a shotgun, but she intentionally steals a car from an innocent bystander, and causes hooker Linda Haynes to slice her hands to ribbons just for spilling food on her out of jealousy. Coffy also gets to run over a half-blind hit man, shotgun Vitroni in his swimming pool, burn a crooked cop alive in his squad car, and repeatedly jam a bobby pin into Omar's carotid artery. Needless to say, she is not a woman to trifle with. Despite taking the moral low road, this is an outstanding exploitation film with enough violence, sadism, nudity, and social outrage to satisfy even the most demanding sleaze buff. Grier is terrific, and it's no coincidence that Quentin Tarantino released Switchblade Sisters to theaters and cast both Grier and Haig in his masterful 1997 blaxpo tribute Jackie Brown. That film also featured music by Coffy composer Roy Ayers.