Starring: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Dan Frazer Directed by: Jack Starrett Binding: DVD Published: 1999-03-30 ISBN: 6305308799
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A Turkish poppy field is torched - and a U.S. drug trafficker known as Mommy is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. For now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in her vendetta - but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth.Year: 1973Running Ti
A Turkish poppy field is torched - and a U.S. drug trafficker known as Mommy is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. For now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in her vendetta - but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. Year: 1973Running Time: 89 min.System Requirements:Starring: Tamara Dobson et al. Edition Details: Region 1 encoding (for use in US and Canada only) Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Special Edition Number of discs: 1 Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: UPC: 085391127529
Special agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson), six feet two inches of sinewy fighting fury clad in layers of runway chic fashions in bright rainbow colors, strolls up a sand dune and orders the destruction of a Turkish poppy field. Thousands of miles away, an L.A. drug lord named Mommy (Shelley Winters hamming it up with garish wigs and lecherous leers) screeches as her life blood burns away and lures Cleopatra stateside to plot her demise. A product of the "blaxploitation" explosion of low-budget thrillers featuring black heroes in the 1970s, Cleopatra Jones may not be the best of the batch but revels in the most outrageous fashion sense. Cleo looks great in furs, pantsuits, ponchos, turbans--a new outfit every scene--and drives a sleek black Corvette with a personalized license plate: "CLEO." It's a shame that the producers dropped the exotic potential of a globetrotting super-agent for an L.A.-bound gangster film, which is entertaining in a comic-book way but rarely reaches the energetic levels of the gritty Pam Grier action pictures Coffy and Foxy Brown. Bernie Casey is a role model of dignity and action as a neighborhood activist, and a garishly overdressed Antonio Fargas delivers a suitably flamboyant performance as Mommy's pusher Doodlebug. The glamorous super-agent flew off to Hong Kong for the 1975 sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Groovy Gal:
Cleopatra Jones was pretty good in this movie, the movie is family friendly, easy to watch, I loved it.
Cleopatra Jones:
very good movie.interesting premise dated, but fresh at the time worth watching again and again.
This six-two soul sister will rock your world:
Dig it, man. Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) is 6'2" of black corvette driving, machine gun firing, karate kicking, outta sight wardrobe wearing government agent soul sister dynamite, and she's back in LA after burning a field of Turkish poppies (in the first scene), to put the town's biggest drug lord, Momma (Shelley Winters, yes, Shelley Winters) out of business. Though Shelley seems more interested in her bevy of young lesbian lovers, and Cleo has to spend the first part of the flick confronting the... more info
Cleopatra Jones-Awesome Corvette!:
I don't recall where I saw this movie, But I remember the Action and Driving Sequence and the Really Tricked out Corvette! It's a Must See for me!
