Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.
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- TriviaEight years after this film's release, Fred Williamson produced, directed, and wrote One Down, Two to go (1982), which reunited him with Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson conceived the idea to do another sequel during a break between filming The Big Score (1983) and Vigilante (1982). The funding for the film, crew, scouting locations, and actors all came together quickly, and the movie was shot in about a month. Williamson considers that film a true sequel to this one.
- GoofsIn the Chicago sequence, Jimmy and Jagger are chasing one of the white supremacists through town and they pass the same man twice.
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Dr. Fortrero: This little mixture of mine is as lethal as cyanide and as selective as a lady buying perfume.
Monroe Feather: It goes to work on the black folks, leave the rest of us alone? You better be damn sure!
Dr. Fortrero: Just like sickle cell anemia, Mr. Feather. And like sickle cell anemia, it will not affect people of the caucasian race. My personal guarantee.
Monroe Feather: How fast does this stuff work?
Dr. Fortrero: Seventy-two hours at the most.
Monroe Feather: Took God seven days to create the world. We can cleanse it, in just three.
- Alternate versionsAdditional scenes were added to the TV version to pad out the running time and for content.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 4 (1997)
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Music by Richard Tufo
Lyrics by Lowrell Simon
Performed by The Impressions (as Impressions)
Courtesy of Buddah and Curtom Records
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- $1,800,000 (estimated)