D'Urville Martin

Hammer -- Brought into the fight game from the docks by a crime syndicate, a boxer (Fred Williamson) mist choose between a title bout promoted by the mob--and the affections of the woman he loves.

Rosemary's Baby -- The story of a loving young New York City couple who are expecting their first child. Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences confusion and fear. Her husband (John Cassavetes), an ambitious but unsuccessful actor, makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward.

Godfrey Cambridge stars in this outrageous comedy directed by maverick filmmaker Melvin Van Peeples (Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song). Jeff Gerber (Cambridge) seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice suburban home, a progressive-thinking wife (Academy Award®-winner Estelle Parsons, Best Supporting Actress, Bonne and Clyde, 1967) and two cute children. But he's also a loud-mouthed racist who wakes up one morning to discover he's turned into a black man. The doctor's have no explanation and no cure for his sudden change. Suddenly, Gerber is a white bigot in black skin who has todeal with a shocked family, intolerant neighbors, cold shoulders at the office and a back seat on the bus!

In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

A pure action tale with a comic book flavor, this sequel to the hit Black Caesar downplays the gritty drama of that film. The story begins when an assassination attempt plotted by crooked District Attorney DiAngelo (Gerald Gordon) fails. With the help of his estranged father Papa Gibbs (Julius Harris), crime lord Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) escapes badly wounded. Papa joins his son's criminal organization in an attempt to fight back when DiAngelo's thugs try to kill him. This move doesn’t go over well with Gibb's top henchman Zach (Tony King) though. Zach with the help of DiAngelo, secretly plots against Tommy and Papa as they build up their criminal empire. He also pins the murder of Helen (Gloria Hendry), Tommy's traitorous ex-wife, on Papa in an attempt to drive a wedge between them. Papa takes over when Tommy gives up his New York crime operation and runs off to California. After Zach kills Papa in a fist fight Tommy returns to settle the score with him and DiAngelo.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.

Rudy Ray Moore stars as Dolemite, sent to prison on a frame-up by some crooked cops and his arch rival, the notorious Willy Green. Dolemite is offered an early release if he can bring down Green, who is terrorizing the city. Dolemite and his beautiful female army of kung fu killers take on the mob in one of the greatest martial arts rumbles ever filmed.

Chicago narcotics detective Frank Hooks (Fred "The Hammer" Williamson) goes after the thugs who framed him in this action-packed crime tale. Hooks is kicked off the force after he's accused of stealing a huge amount of dough from a drug bust. But the detective is bent on revenge, and his enemies will soon learn that no one messes with The Hammer and gets away with it. Richard Roundtree, John Saxon, Joe Spinell and Nancy Wilson co-star.

Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier), a tough-talking Chicago private eye, returns to her Kentucky roots to help her father fight a hostile business takeover. But when the mob brutally murders him, Sheba must battle evil crime lord Pilot (D'Urville Martin) to reclaim her family's honor and get revenge. Armed with curve-hugging outfits and shiny firearms, this lady killer takes her vendetta to new depths, setting sail on the high seas.

Rudy Ray Moore stars as Dolemite, sent to prison on a frame-up by some crooked cops and his arch rival, the notorious Willy Green. Dolemite is offered an early release if he can bring down Green, who is terrorizing the city. Dolemite and his beautiful female army of kung fu killers take on the mob in one of the greatest martial arts rumbles ever filmed.

Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud, Tommy resorts to running "errands" for The Man. But when a crooked cop beats him up, Tommy realizes there's a better way to live: by making The Man deliver for him! Infiltrating and then destroying the infamous Cardoza family, Tommy takes over Manhattan as the first black Godfather and puts the squeeze on anyone who dares to get in his way including the crooked cop! But as he tightens his grip on others, he loses his hold on the most important things in his own life, making him the vulnerable target of every cutthroat gangster who ever dreamt of ruling an empire!

Gladys and John Henry Brooks (Clarice Taylor and Leonard Jackson) try to keep their family together in the midst of the changing social, political and sexual mores of the 1970s. Produced in response to the violent blaxploitation films that dominated the period, Five takes a more light-hearted look at African-American domestic life, providing a time capsule of mid-'70s attitudes and fashions along the way.