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Black Belt Jones is a 1974 American blaxploitation martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse, starring Jim Kelly and Gloria Hendry. A martial artist (Jim Kelly) battles the Mafia and ghetto hoods to keep a karate school from falling into the wrong hands.
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This and most of his other roles played up the novelty of an African-American martial arts master. His other two Warner Brothers films were Golden Needles (1974), with Joe Don Baker and Elizabeth Ashley, and Hot Potato (1976), in which he reprises his role as Black Belt Jones and rescues a diplomat's daughter from the jungles of Thailand.
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops ...
Black Belt Jones (1974) A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge.
Jun 3, 2000 · And for a movie with the words “Black Belt” in its title, the martial arts are pretty bad (even thought it came from the same team behind the legendary Enter The Dragon). The dialog is cliched, misogynistic, and stereotypical. But, dang, is it sassy and funny. And in those rare cases like Black Belt Jones, that’s enough.
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