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VHS : Bucktown |
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Amazon.com's Price: $8.98 Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792841975
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Video Transfer, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792841972
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: January 09, 2001
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 10663
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 1975
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Fred Williamson (Black Caesar) proves once again he's the ultimate soul brotherdark, daring and ready for surprises. He and sexy co-star Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) heat up the sheets and the streets in this scintillating soul flick about a city ripped apart by prejudice, greed and plenty of gangsta action. Bucktown explodes like sparks and gasolinesetting small-town America on fire! Dean Johnson (Williamson) arrives in Bucktown to bury his murdered brother. He then takes over his brother's bar and everything that comes with it: the goodwhich includes a foxy localgal (Grier)and the bada sleazy police force that shakes him down for protection money. Proving he can't be pushed, Johnson calls in his big-city brothers who move into town with the necessary firepower to set things straight. But when the smoke clears, Johnson finds that his victorious cohorts are just as bad as the bigoted cops they've just destroyed, and now he has to rid the city of his violent friendsby any means necessary!
Amazon.com:
This middling but entirely watchable blaxploitation thriller from 1975 stars football-legend-turned-actor Fred Williamson as the brother of a murdered bar owner in a racially divided town. After bringing in a gaggle of tough street buddies from the old neighborhood to help break up a corrupt police force, Williamson's character figures he can settle into domestic bliss with Pam Grier. But there's a snag: the hero's restless posse decides to take over the white cops' graft operation, forcing a bloody finale of retribution. In the '70s genre of reactionary revenge movies, Bucktown is a minor entry, and Grier's rather passive performance is certainly anomalous in the blaxploitation vein. But it is worth a visit, especially for cult film completists. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The Buck Stops Here....In Bucktown!!
Duke(Fred Williamson) rolls into Bucktown, MO, for his brother's funeral. After being left his brother's bar in his will, Duke decides to reopen it, but soon finds out that the town is "run by honkies". This means that the racist police force is running a kind of protection racket, getting money from store owners and such. Well, we all know damn well that Fred "The Hammer" Williamson is not the kind of guy who pays protection money. After smacking around some of the corrupt cops(and in the process ... Read More
Rating: - Pam Grier and Fred Williamson are a great pair.
`Bucktown' is fill with some exciting drama. The plot is relatively original, Duke (played by Fred Williamson) comes to a town to bury his brother who died. His brother owned a bar called The Alabama. This particular town is a mini, sleazy, version of Vegas (the actual city used for the filming seems to be Kansas City, Mossouri,) a town that attracts low rent tourists because of its gambling and prostitution. It's going to take a while for Duke to settle his brother's estate, so he hangs around town and ... Read More
Rating: - And I was there....
What can I say, I'm bias, why... not because this was another of those "black" films everyone thought should be made but because I actually had a small bit part in it. Yep, stood out there in the cold of Platte City (MO), with about 16 other extras. Saw the open call for extras on the bulletin board at school and answered the call. Hey, no money, no true fame, but at least my segment didn't get tossed to the cutting room floor and it was fun "being in a movie"
Rating:  - Williamson Takes Over the Town, and the Film, Too
As a soul cinema fan, it is hard for me to criticize this film, which unites two Afro-American icons, Pam Grier and Fred Williamson. Still, I must confess my disappointed feelings after watching "Bucktown," a rather mediocre film, considering those two fantastic leads.
"Bucktown" is a corrupt town where the corrupt cops donimate. Now Duke (Williamson), after his brother's suspicious death, comes back to this hometown (in a "Ger Carter" way), only to find himself trapped in between the hostile ... Read More
Rating: - cool film
this film worked really well.Both The "Hammer"&Pam Grier get down to Business here.it's so sad at how they didn't get there Props back in the day because films like this Showcase how tight they were on screen&they always had alot of Great Action in the films.Pam Grier still Blows My Mind She is SuperBaddd!!
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