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A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.
Jeannie Bell
- Diana 'T.N.T.' Jackson
- (as Jeanne Bell)
Ken Metcalfe
- Sid
- (as Ken Metcalf)
Joonee Gamboa
- Drug Dealer
- (as John Gamble)
Joe Mari Avellana
- Ming
- (uncredited)
Andres Centenera
- Police Chief
- (uncredited)
Michael Locsin
- Karate Kid
- (uncredited)
Ronnel Victor
- Karate Kid
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaWriter Dick Miller worked on many Roger Corman films, heading such classics as "Bucket of Blood".
- GoofsWhen TNT Jackson fights a roomful of men topless, she is wearing small black panties. During the fight, she makes a leaping attack while wearing bigger white panties. When she lands, she's wearing the black panties again.
- Quotes
Diana 'T.N.T.' Jackson: [turning off the lights in preparation for a fight] You want it black? You got it black.
- ConnectionsEdited into Ninja the Mission Force: The Real Bruce (2013)
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Don't get your hopes up... T.N.T. Jackson is a poor man's Cleopatra Jones.
I'd been warned off 'T.N.T. Jackson' but couldn't resist as I'm a sucker for 1970s trash like this. Directed by Cirio H. Santiago, one of the producers of the classic Jack Hill chick in chains movies 'The Big Doll House' and 'The Big Bird Cage' which co-starred Pam Grier, with Roger Corman as executive producer, and a script co-written by b-grade legend Dick Miller(!), how could this go wrong? Well it does. Kinda. Jeanne Bell, who I vaguely remembered from bit parts in 'The Klansman' and 'Mean Streets', is beautiful and is a reasonable actress, but lacks the charisma of Pam Grier, or closer to home, Tamara Dobson ('Cleopatra Jones'). Despite being mainly filmed in the Philippines it lacks the grittiness of the aforementioned Pam Grier vehicles and is closer to the fantasy of the Dobson Cleopatra Jones movies. Only it isn't anywhere near as good. On the other hand it isn't as downright silly as say, 'Black Samurai' starring Jim Kelly (a guilty pleasure of mine), so I can't say it's a complete stinker either. Bell is supported by Stan Shaw ('Truck Turner'), and Ken Metcalfe, who co-wrote the script with Dick Miller, and both actors were better than the movie itself. One thing that really lets the movie down is the fight scenes which just don't convince. In one of them Bell is topless, and that is certainly a novelty, but on the whole they just don't work. 'T.N.T. Jackson' is neither the best nor the worst blaxploitation movie I've ever seen. It's one of those movies that you won't regret watching once, but you are very unlikely to rush to watch twice.
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- Sep 1, 2003
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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