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Cleopatra Jones
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305308799
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305308799
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D11275D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973-07
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Editorial Review:
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
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Next to foxxy cleopatra jones got it my girl for life
I was a little girl my dad used to take me to the movies and she's the bomb. Plus I got the poster after they took the movie off. To put something else on. Rest in peace Tamara Dobson you #1.
Rating: - Don't mess with Cleopatra Jones!!!!!
I am a fan of blaxploitation flicks, and this one is a classic film. Tamara Dobson is beautiful in this film, and does a terrific job. Everyone in this film did an excellent job. RIP Tamara Dobson.
Rating:  - "Could Have Been Better"
The movie was okay. If you like movies from the 70's, then this is another flick to add to your collection. Tamara Dobson is definitly
one tough sista.
Rating: - RIGHT ON! SWEET SISTAH!
Simply one of the best, fun and campy, cult films of the 1970's. Even today 2007, this movie is alot of fun. Rest in peace Tamara Dobson, you were and always will be "a whole lotta woman!"
Rating: - She Isn't Some Lame Wonder Woman
As bad as a man as Shaft is, he wouldn't play with Cleopatra Jones if he thought for one minute she was on her last nerve, and it was shredding fast.
Tamara Dobson portrays a special agent who is busting up a drug pipeline from Turkey to the United States that is operated by Mommy (Shelley Winters). I hope I don't ruin the ending for you, but keep in mind the movie isn't titled, Mommy.
I always found the film a parody of James Bond and the other tough white heroes back ... Read More
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