Movies - Coffy

	Movies - Coffy

Coffy, Jack Hill's 1973 film about an African American woman vigilante, catapulted Pam Grier to stardom as one of blaxploitation's biggest icons.

According to writer/director Hill, the project began when American International Pictures' head of production, Larry Gordon, lost the rights to the film, Cleopatra Jones
after making a handshake deal with the producers. Gordon subsequently approached Hill to quickly make a movie about an African American woman's revenge and beat Cleopatra Jones to market.

It is notable in its rare depiction of a strong female lead (a capable nurse), rare in the genre at the time, and also in its then-unfashionable anti-drug message. It was remade (with an all-white cast) in 1981's Lovely But Deadly.

This film provided the prototype for a number of other Pam Grier vehicles, over the duration of the blaxploitation genre including its one time sequel, Foxy Brown
.

Plot summary

In the movie, Grier plays Coffy, a nurse by day/vigilante by night who conducts a one woman war on organized crime in Los Angeles after her sister becomes addicted to drugs. Along the way her police officer friend, Carter, is put into a coma and her politician boyfriend, Howard, betrays her to the mob. Using every tool in her arsenal, from seduction to brute force, she eventually dispatches with every mafioso and crooked cop in the film.

Trivia

The dragging death of a pimp (Robert DoQui) would be considered as a racist overtone after 1998 - this is where the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. was considered a hate crime.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was done by Roy Ayers.

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