After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Acting
Pam Grier's star-making ferocity commands every frame.
Costume
Seventies fashion that weaponizes sex appeal brilliantly.
Direction
Jack Hill's lean exploitation craft with surprising social bite.
Director
Jack Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pam Grier did many of her own stunts, including the memorable car chase. The studio wanted a white actress originally; Hill fought for Grier and made cinematic history.
Released the same year as Cleopatra Jones, this cemented the 'badass Black woman' archetype that Quentin Tarantino would later fetishize in Jackie Brown—starring Grier herself, finally getting her due.
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