Bucktown (1975)

Despite her prominent presence on the poster I saw this is not really a Pam Grier movie, but rather a blaxsplotation movie where Pam Grier plays the love interest. The star of 'Bucktown' is Fred Williamson, playing a former professional boxer who travels to the small southern community of Bucktown to attend his brothers funeral and inherit the club he owned. Williamson tries to spruce up the joint with the intention of selling it but persecution by the local and corrupt white constabulary causes him to double down and invite criminal friends from Chicago to help him clean up the community. Things go kind of too well and before long the crooks have taken over local law enforcement and its a case of new boss same as the old boss, with Williamson and his former best bud Thalmus Rasulala set on a collision course. Despite some elements of promise at the start and not going the way I had expected it would this movie is bad. By 74 or 75 the 'extremeness' of these kind of pictures which had been so novel in 72 and 73 had really begun to wear off. *1/2