Review of Coffy

A powerhouse performance by Pam Grier emerges from director Jack Hill's revenge thriller. Grier is a nurse bent on obliterating the drug pushers, pimps and crooked politicians responsible for getting her kid sister hooked on junk. The hokey dialog and noble underpinnings of the plot are easy to take given the exciting action packed into this film by Hill. It's all played out to a pulse pounding funk score by Roy Ayers. Grier gives a gutsy performance and the supporting cast includes William Elliott as a good cop, Booker Bradshaw as very bad politician as well as Robert DoQui as "King George," a very flamboyant and very badly dressed drug pusher/pimp. Alan Arbus is a sleazy businessman with a lot of fetishes. The great Sid Haig is Omar. The cinematography is by Paul Lohmann, who went on to shoot some of the best films of Robert Altman and Mel Brooks!