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JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2

By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss who hired him to kill Jim Brown's titular black tough guy SLAUGHTER... seeking revenge for his father's mob-ordered death... the 1972 anything-goes/gun-blasting extravaganza is only halfway through...

And has already featured some worthwhile actors including Cameron Mitchell and sidekick's sidekick Don Gordon, right at home in a b-movie that passes for mainstream... like something from the Bond franchise as Jim Brown, wearing a dapper tuxedo, walks coolly into the antagonist's crooked casino, winning money and even landing a sexy moll, who at least three of the uncompromisingly racist mafiosos are after...

Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER

In that, Stella Stevens has one of her most memorable and controversial roles since, at that time, a black leading man hadn't had on-screen sex with a white woman: not only making some real-life audiences angry, but is what Rip Torn's all torn-up about... while desperately taking-over a Mexico-set mafia that cannot take Jim Brown down...

In a Jack Starrett directed revenge-flick (including groovy fish-eyed-lens' slow-mo death sequences) that could be the greatest blaxploitation flick ever... or at least the coolest, tightest, and most convincing.

Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Stella Stevens and Norman Alfe in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Rip Torn and Norman Alfe in SLAUGHTER
Rip Torn, Robert Phillips and Eddie Lo Russo in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER with Stella Stevens
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
From Jack Starrett's SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Don Gordon in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER with Marlene Clark
Rip Torn in SLAUGHTER
Rip Torn and Stella Stevens in SLAUGHTER
Rip Torn in SLAUGHTER with Jim Brown
Rip Torn and Stella Stevens in SLAUGHTER
Rip Torn in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown and Don Gordon in SLAUGHTER
Don Gordon in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER with Stella Stevens
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Rip Torn in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Cameron Mitchell in SLAUGHTER
Stella Stevens in SLAUGHTER
Stella Stevens in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Marlene Clark in SLAUGHTER
Robert Phillips in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER
Don Gordon in SLAUGHTER
Jim Brown in SLAUGHTER

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