Description |
2 videodiscs (350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
System Details |
DVD (NTSC, region 1); widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby digital mono. |
Note |
Title from container. |
Cast |
Black Belt Jones: Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers. |
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Hot potato: Jim Kelly, George Memmoli, Geoffrey Binney, Irene Tsu. |
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Black Samson: Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland, Carol Speed, Michael Payne. |
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Three the hard way: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier. |
Note |
Originally released as motion pictures in 1974-1975. |
Summary |
Black Belt Jones: Pop Boyd owns a thriving karate school near downtown Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it sits on a piece of land the Mafia wants to acquire to develop its own civic center. When the mob's muscling of Pop leads to tragedy, Black Belt Jones steps forward to exact his individual brand of lighting-charged revenge. |
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Hot potato: After kidnapping the daughter of a U.S. Senator, a power hungry Oriental warlord thinks he's holding all the aces in his bid for political control in Thailand. But he's thinking wrong. Three gung-ho soldiers-of-fortune will soon convince him he's holding a hot potato. |
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Black Samson: Samson, a nightclub owner, fights against the drug dealer who wants to "own" the neighborhood. |
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Three the hard way: An insane white supremacist plans to poison the water supplies of Washington, D.C., Detroit and Los Angeles. The poison will kill only blacks. Three black agents thwart the plot. |
Contents |
[disc 1] Black Belt Jones (85 min., 1974) / a Weintraub-Heller production ; screeplay by Oscar Williams ; story by Fred Weintraub, Alex Ross ; produced by Fred Weintraub & Paul Heller ; directed by Robert Clouse. Hot potato (87 min., 1975) / a Weintraub-Heller production ; produced by produced by Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller ; written and directed by Oscar Williams -- [disc 2] Black Samson (88 min., 1974) / an Omni Pictures production ; produced by Daniel B. Cady ; screenplay by Warren Hamilton, Jr. ; story by Daniel B. Cady ; directed by Charles Bail. Three the hard way (90 min., 1974) / Emanuel L. Wolf presents ; written by Eric Bercovici & Jerry Ludwig ; produced by Harry Bernsen ; directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. |
Audience |
Rated R; rated PG (Hot potato). |
Language |
French subtitles; English subtitles for the hearing impaired. |
Subject |
Blaxploitation films.
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Blaxploitation films. (OCoLC)fst00834235
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Action and adventure films.
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Martial arts films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Action and adventure films. (OCoLC)fst01710568
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Martial arts films. (OCoLC)fst01710575
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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Added Author |
Clouse, Robert.
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Kelly, Jim, 1946-2013.
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Hendry, Gloria, 1949-
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Crothers, Scat Man.
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Williams, Oscar, 1944-
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Weintraub, Fred.
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Heller, Paul M., 1927-2020
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Memmoli, George, 1938-1985.
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Tsu, Irene.
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Cady, Daniel B.
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Hamilton, Warren, Jr.
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Bail, Charles, 1935-2020.
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Tarkington, Rockne.
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Smith, William, 1933-2021.
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Strickland, Connie.
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Speed, Carol.
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Wolf, Emanuel L.
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Parks, Gordon, 1934-1979.
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Bernsen, Harry.
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Bercovici, Eric.
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Brown, Jim, 1936-2023
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Williamson, Fred.
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Frazier, Sheila, 1948-
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Omni Pictures Corporation.
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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Added Title |
Four film favorites |
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Hot potato (Motion picture : 1975)
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Standard No. |
883929101641 |
ISBN |
1419890999 |
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9781419890994 |
Music No. |
1000116718 Warner Home Video |
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3000027917 Warner Home Video |
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