Slaughter's Big Ripoff

Slaughter's Big Ripoff
by Gordon Douglas

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Actor: Brock Peters, Don Stroud, Ed McMahon, Gloria Hendry, Jim Brown
Director: Gordon Douglas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Decent sequel to the dynamite first film--
Summary: 3 Stars

Army veteran Slaughter's latest adventure doesn't take him to South America (incongruously referenced as Mexico here), but there's still plenty of trouble to be found in the U.S.

The plot here follows a bungled Mob hit on Slaughter that ends up killing a good friend of his, and Slaughter's efforts to get revenge. Black Action Movie genre veterans abound in this film: Gloria Hendry ("Black Belt Jones", "Live & Let Die") is the leading lady here, Marcia. Brock Peters is Reynolds, a cop who thinks some of his superiors are on the take. They are, and the Mob boss behind them is Ed McMahon, aka Duncan. Don Stroud is Kirk, the lead henchman, and Slaughter's main foil here.

Again, a list of kickback recipients figures into the plot: Dick Anthony Williams (billed here as Richard) is Joe Creole, a pimp and professional burglar for hire(!), who becomes Slaughter's temporary partner in heisting Duncan's ledgers listing the politicians and other public officials receiving payoffs. This leads to a game of cat-and-mouse between Slaughter and Kirk, and the violent climax in one of Duncan's nightclubs.

There are almost as many fight scenes here as in the first film; the opening sequence somehow combines a horse race and a "fly-by" shooting by crop-duster. In keeping with genre standards, the women here are gorgeous and (mostly) of loose virtue. Here, Slaughter gets twice the love action, as he beds a palm-reader early on, in addition to Marcia later. There is also a hilarious Scatman Crothers cameo as a numbers man. McMahon as Duncan gets less to do than you would think-- also, unlike many Blaxploitation villains, he's not portrayed as a racist (that's Kirk's department): but seeing the Tonight Show sidekick as a crime lord is still amusing unto itself. We still don't get much of a glimpse into Slaughter's background (besides being ex-Army with a private arsenal, just what does he do for a living?); alas, such intellectual concerns are perhaps unnecessary to enjoy the fisticuffs and gunplay...

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Summary of Slaughter's Big Ripoff

Slaughter's backand the mob's out to get him! Big Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra) returns in the role of the ex-Green Beret who takes on the job of scorching the mob in this spectacular actioner! Co-starring Ed McMahon ('the Tonight Show ), Gloria Hendry (Live AndLet Die) and Scatman Crothers (The Shining), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off is one fast-paced massacre [that] puts it all out front (LA Herald-Examiner)!When a gunman in aplane tries to pull a fly-by on Slaughter, he knows his battle with the moband corrupt copsis far from over. Helped by an honest detective and a good-hearted pimp, Slaughter goes on a missionto expose a list that names every politician and policeman on the mob dole. But it won't be easy. The list is in the home safe of the big man himself (McMahon) and he'll do anythingincluding kidnapping Slaughter's babeto keep it!

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