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The Black Gestapo
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Wikipedia article
'The Black Gestapo' (also released as 'Ghetto Warriors') is an 1975 American film about a vigilante named General Ahmed, who starts an inner-city "People's Army" to protect the black citizens of Watts.[https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Black_Gestapo 'The Black Gestapo' at 'The Grindhouse Cinema Database'][http://www.daarac.org/2008/12/black-gestapo-1975.html "'The Black Gestapo' (1975)" at DAARAC (Department of AfroAmerican Research and Culture, December 11, 2008)][http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/BlackGestapo.html Decker, Nathan. "'The Black Gestapo' (1975)" ('Million Monkey Theater' BMovie Reviews, January 2010)] However, when the Army succeeds in chasing the mob out of town, Ahmed is replaced by his colleague Colonel Kojah, who reforms the movement into a National Socialist criminal organization in order to have complete control over the town.[http://www.badazzmofo.com/2014/04/12/blaxploitation-archive-the-black-gestapo/ Walker, David. "blaxploitation archive 'THE BLACK GESTAPO'" (April 12, 2014)]
It was written and directed by Lee Frost, and stars Rod Perry, Charles P. Robinson, Phil Hoover, Ed Cross and features a cameo from Russ Meyer regular Uschi Digard. It depicts African-American men dressed as Nazis and contains many scenes of violence (including a castration scene) and soft-core nudity.[http://awesomebmovies.com/2015/06/the-black-gestapo-1975/ Strack, Nathan. "'The Black Gestapo' (1975)" at 'Awesome B Movies' (June 11, 2015)]
Cast
* Rod Perry as General Ahmed
* Charles P. Robinson as Colonel Kojah
* Phil Hoover as Vito
* Ed Cross as Delmay
* Angela Brent as Marsha
* Wes Bishop as Ernest
* Lee Frost as Vincent
* Dona Desmond as White whore
* Charles Howerton as Joe
* Rai Tasco as Dr. Lisk
* David Bryant as Dope Pusher
* J. Christopher Sullivan as T. V. Owner
* Susan Randolph as Vincent's Girl
* Colin Male as Newscaster
* Gene Russell as Gambler
* Uschi Digard as Kojah's Girl
* Chuck Wells as Trooper
* Bill Quinn as The Accountant
* Tim Wade as Hood
* Roger Gentry as Hood
Critical responses
Writing in Allmovie, critic Donald Guarisco wrote that the film "lives up [to] the offensive potential of its title by cramming every bit of nastiness it can muster into its short running time," and that although it "is socially irresponsible [...] At its best, it's even inspired in a very twisted sort of way." Critic Matthew Roe wrote in Under the Radar magazine that the "nazi iconography in this film is as subtle as the apocolypse," that "everything about this film screams 70s action schlock," and although "there are scattershot moments of interesting introspection, the movie keeps the dial cranked up and keeps cheap thrills coming its entire runtime."
As the Gestapo was the interior secret service of the Third Reich, it appears that the producers of the movie mixed the name up with the paramilitaric SS which was founded as the private army of the Nazi Party and fits much more to the organisation showed in the movie, so the movie's title would have been more accurate as "The Black SS" rather than "The Black Gestapo".
See also
* List of American films of 1975
References
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