A former Cosa Nostra henchman seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss.A former Cosa Nostra henchman seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss.A former Cosa Nostra henchman seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss.
Clarence Satchell
- Self
- (as Satch)
Ohio Players
- Themselves
- (uncredited)
Angelo Ragusa
- Thug
- (uncredited)
Franco Ukmar
- Thug
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaIn an interview with Jay Slater, Fred Williamson told how he made this movie during the shooting of Enzo G. Castellari's The Inglorious Bastards (1978). He would take the camera equipment and crew every Saturday and Sunday, and the film Mr. Mean (1977), unknown to the producer at that time. He wrote the story Monday to Friday and shot on the weekends what he had written that week.
- GoofsDuring the long opening foot-chase sequence, there's no explanation for how the thugs in the red Cadillac could have known where Fred would run to for joining in the pursuit.
- SoundtracksMr. Mean
Written and Performed by Ohio Players
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if y'all want the job done clean, and y'all got the folding green, you can rely on Mr. Mean!'
Super bad icon Fred Williamson directs Fred Williamson in the Fred Williamson-tastic 70s hit man thriller Mr. Mean. Williamson's Mr. Mean is one virile and brutish hombre, and when he's not being a virile and brutish hombre he's kicking yo' muther's ass!!!! Hired to kill a sleazy mafia skell (Lou Castel), Mr. Mean is soon a marked man, but he brutally unmarks himself by kicking every muther-lovers ass!!! Right on!!!! Additional funky vibes are groovily gleaned from the pristine Ohio Players score. Scrappy scads of chronic, haymaker Kung Fu, dapper threads, Vesuvius hot chicks, Postcard perfect Rome locations, burly Alpha Raimund Harmsdorf, and a frankly bewildered Lou Castel makes Mr. Mean one righteously Euro-freaky scene! This action-jacked, enjoyably cheapnis Blaxploitation/Eurocrime, head-knocking hybrid is one bumpy ride, brother man, and comes with a funky little twist-let at the end. Right on!!!! Williamson is still the phooken man!!!!
'In between the sheets he's a dream, out on the streets he's a killing machine, but if y'all want the job done clean, and y'all got the folding green, you can rely on Mr. Mean!'
'In between the sheets he's a dream, out on the streets he's a killing machine, but if y'all want the job done clean, and y'all got the folding green, you can rely on Mr. Mean!'
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