Willie Dynamite (Blu-ray)

The hands-down winner of the all-out best blaxploitation movie of the seventies, declares author and artist Darius James in Thats Blaxploitation! Willie Dynamite may not be as well-known as John Shaft, Sweet Sweetback or Super Flys Youngblood Priest, but he certainly deserves to be.Who is Willie Dynamite? Hes the flashiest pimp in New York he drives a personalised purple-and-gold Cadillac and wears some of the most eye-catching outfits ever seen on a cinema screen. He wants to be number one, but with the police, the D.A., fellow pimps and a tough-talking social worker on his tail, can a man as arrogant and amoral as Willie D avoid a downfall?Willie Dynamite competes with the best of blaxploitation on all levels. Roscoe Orman dominates with his central performance a star turn thats the equal of Richard Roundtree in Shaft or Pam Grier in Coffy. Multi-award-winning director Gilbert Moses balances action and social commentary as deftly as Gordon Parks, Jr. did with Super Fly. And the sco