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Showing posts with label Nevada. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2012

Blackjack (1978)


































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Storyline
When the mob picks Roy King (Damu King) to take the rap for a crime he didn't commit — they picked on the the wrong man! Roy survives and gets out of Nevada's toughest prison with only one though on his mind — REVENGE! THe Mob's head boss in La Vegas (William Smith) tries to stop this One Man Hit Squad with everything he got, but when he "craps out", the Mob decides to turn Brother against Brother when they pay Roy's friend Charles (Tony Burton) $50,000 to kill Roy. The electrifying events that follow turn Las Vegas into a seething neon inferno when Roy and his gang of the Baddest Brothers to ever Strut on the Strip decide it's time for the Mob to cash in its' chips — permanently!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Lady Cocoa (1975)

















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Storyline
Lola Falana is Lady Cocoa, in Matt Cimber's classic 1975 crime thriller. After being given a 24-hour leave from prison, in exchange for which she'll agree to testify against her mobster boyfriend, Cocoa hits the streets, but quickly discovers that violence lurks around every corner. Co-starring Millie Perkins and George Flower, Lady Cocoa is a non-stop thrill ride of revenge.