After he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place.After he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place.After he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place.
René Van Clief
- Dolemite Girl
- (as Rene Van Clief)
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- TriviaThe script called for a "penny hustler," but Rudy Ray Moore and Jerry Jones were unable to find a suitable actor through Moore's acquaintances or among Jones' acting class students. After filming began, Moore and Jones were traveling down Western Avenue in Los Angeles when they spotted the exact type of character they were looking for hustling on the street. They pulled over, Jones got out and talked to the man, and Vanius Rackstraw was hired as "The Creeper / Hamburger Pimp" on the spot.
- GoofsA sound effects man is visible on screen, clapping, during one fight scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Best of Sex and Violence (1982)
- SoundtracksDolemite
Composed by Ben A. Taylor (as Ben Taylor)
Music played by Different Bag and Revelation Funk Band
Sung by Ben A. Taylor (as Ben Taylor)
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Every bit as crude and poorly made as I had hoped. It could serve as a "how not to make films 101" in the sheer amount of continuity errors, poor audio, bad acting, bad writing, bad camera cuts and even an instance of bad lip-syncing.
But you can tell the sheer amount of heart and passion that is at the core of this movie, to the point that even with all the violence, gratuitous nudity, and coarse language, there is this odd sense of wholesomeness that occupied the whole picture. There's something about a bunch of friends coming together and making a film with absolutely no clue how to do it, and now given the backstory thanks to Dolemite Is My Name, and knowing the challenges the crew went through as well as their ultimate triumph, I found myself really respecting everything about this hilariously bad film.
That was one hell of a run-on sentence.
But you can tell the sheer amount of heart and passion that is at the core of this movie, to the point that even with all the violence, gratuitous nudity, and coarse language, there is this odd sense of wholesomeness that occupied the whole picture. There's something about a bunch of friends coming together and making a film with absolutely no clue how to do it, and now given the backstory thanks to Dolemite Is My Name, and knowing the challenges the crew went through as well as their ultimate triumph, I found myself really respecting everything about this hilariously bad film.
That was one hell of a run-on sentence.
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- $100,000 (estimated)
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