Cleopatra Jones

Cleopatra Jones

1973. USA. Directed by Jack Starrett. Marketed as 6′2″ of “dynamite,” Tamara Dobson cut an unforgettably charismatic figure in this energetic blast of Blaxploitation, which offered a rousing feminine spin on a notably masculine genre. She plays the eponymous undercover special agent, a no-nonsense martial arts expert, facing off against the dastardly drug lord Mommy (Winters, in a breathtakingly strange performance.) Courtesy Warner Brothers Classics. 35mm. 89 min.