Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Acting
Bernie Casey's simmering rage and Grier's scene-stealing magnetism.
Direction
Armitage's lean, mean pacing before he did Miami Blues.
Production
Unflinching 70s LA locations from porno theaters to wildlife preserves.
Director
George Armitage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was George Armitage's directorial debut, made for Roger Corman's New World Pictures on a shoestring.
Released the same year as 'Foxy Brown' and 'Coffy,' this helped cement 1972 as peak Pam Grier dominance in blaxploitation cinema.
US
