Rudy Ray Moore

From the director of Friday Foster and J. D.'s Revenge comes a free-wheelin' fast-dealin' look at life in the ghetto Chicago style. Filled with comedy, fantasy and a cast of unforgettable characters, The Monkey Hustle is a fast, funny and downright funky film that has it all and a little more! Everybody's got a scam goin' on in this small Chicago hood but nobody's got it goin' quite like Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto). He's so smooth, he teaches Flim-Flam 101- how to score, scam, jimmy and jam and get over on anyone! But when a new expressway threatens to express its way through their turf, Foxx and all the other monkey hustlers have to band together or the only place left to do their deeds will be between six stripey lines on a blacktop!

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.

Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto, in a rare leading role) is a natural when it comes to scheming and scamming, and that keeps him one step ahead of the competition in his Windy City ghetto. But he'll need all his wits -- and the help of his neighbors -- to quash the local government's plan to run an expressway through the 'hood. Rudy Ray Moore and Rosalind Cash also star in this amusing blaxploitation dramedy.

The Monkey Hustle is a fast, funny and downright funky film that has it all and a little more!

The Monkey Hustle is a fast, funny and downright funky film that has it all and a little more!

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.