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While investigating a plot to assassinate politicians, magazine photographer Friday Foster becomes a target herself.While investigating a plot to assassinate politicians, magazine photographer Friday Foster becomes a target herself.While investigating a plot to assassinate politicians, magazine photographer Friday Foster becomes a target herself.
Ed Cambridge
- Lt. Jake Wayne
- (as Edmund Cambridge)
Jack Baker
- Cop #1
- (as John Anthony Bailey)
Will Gill Jr.
- Minister
- (as William Gill)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe film is based on a newspaper comic strip of the same name by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longarón that debuted January 18, 1970 and ran in 80 to 100 papers. It was the first mainstream comic strip with a black lead character. The end credits thank Chicago Tribune Syndication, which licensed the comic strip to newspapers. Ironically, the movie was released after the strip ended in 1974.
- GoofsEven though the plot is set in February (the finale takes place on Valentine's Day), the trees in the Washington D.C. scenes are all green, and no one is wearing winter clothes.
- Quotes
Ford Malotte: [to Friday] Take my advice stay out of it. Get laid have a baby or something.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004)
- SoundtracksFriday
Written by Bodie Chandler
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Your Above Average 1970s Blaxploitation Flick
Friday Foster (Pam Grier), an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America... and things go awry.
I love blaxploitation films and I love Pam Grier (which is pretty much necessary given how much the two overlap). Here she is made out to be a very strong woman in a variety of ways -- head-strong, smart as a whip... and someone who sexually knows what they want (this is a fine line between "easy" and "determined", and Foster walks it well).
Is it the best of its kind? Probably not. But well worth a watch for fans of the genre, with some great supporting actors -- including Scatman Crothers, Eartha Kitt and Carl Weathers, among others. Unfortunately for us, this was Grier's final film with American International Pictures.
I love blaxploitation films and I love Pam Grier (which is pretty much necessary given how much the two overlap). Here she is made out to be a very strong woman in a variety of ways -- head-strong, smart as a whip... and someone who sexually knows what they want (this is a fine line between "easy" and "determined", and Foster walks it well).
Is it the best of its kind? Probably not. But well worth a watch for fans of the genre, with some great supporting actors -- including Scatman Crothers, Eartha Kitt and Carl Weathers, among others. Unfortunately for us, this was Grier's final film with American International Pictures.
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- Friday Foster - Im Netz der Schwarzen Spinne
- Filming locations
- Richelieu Apartments - 751 South Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA(Interior/ extrior. As Friday Foster's apartment)
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- $750,000 (estimated)
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