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Cleopatra Jones | 
| Director: Jack Starrett
Actors: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Dan Frazer
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 9543
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Hifi Sound, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: D11275D
ISBN: 6305308799
UPC: 085391127529
EAN: 9786305308799
ASIN: 6305308799
Theatrical Release Date: July 1973
Release Date: March 30, 1999
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Product Description
A Turkish poppy field is torched - and a U.S. drug trafficker known as Mommy is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. For now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in her vendetta - but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. Year: 1973Running Time: 89 min.System Requirements:Starring: Tamara Dobson et al. Edition Details: Region 1 encoding (for use in US and Canada only) Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Special Edition Number of discs: 1 Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: UPC: 085391127529
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Special agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson), six feet two inches of sinewy fighting fury clad in layers of runway chic fashions in bright rainbow colors, strolls up a sand dune and orders the destruction of a Turkish poppy field. Thousands of miles away, an L.A. drug lord named Mommy (Shelley Winters hamming it up with garish wigs and lecherous leers) screeches as her life blood burns away and lures Cleopatra stateside to plot her demise. A product of the "blaxploitation" explosion of low-budget thrillers featuring black heroes in the 1970s, Cleopatra Jones may not be the best of the batch but revels in the most outrageous fashion sense. Cleo looks great in furs, pantsuits, ponchos, turbans--a new outfit every scene--and drives a sleek black Corvette with a personalized license plate: "CLEO." It's a shame that the producers dropped the exotic potential of a globetrotting super-agent for an L.A.-bound gangster film, which is entertaining in a comic-book way but rarely reaches the energetic levels of the gritty Pam Grier action pictures Coffy and Foxy Brown. Bernie Casey is a role model of dignity and action as a neighborhood activist, and a garishly overdressed Antonio Fargas delivers a suitably flamboyant performance as Mommy's pusher Doodlebug. The glamorous super-agent flew off to Hong Kong for the 1975 sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. --Sean Axmaker
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Next to foxxy cleopatra jones got it my girl for life September 18, 2007
C. baldon (indpls)
I was a little girl my dad used to take me to the movies and she's the bomb. Plus I got the poster after they took the movie off. To put something else on. Rest in peace Tamara Dobson you #1.
Don't mess with Cleopatra Jones!!!!! August 3, 2007
Arnel (Brooklyn, NY)
I am a fan of blaxploitation flicks, and this one is a classic film. Tamara Dobson is beautiful in this film, and does a terrific job. Everyone in this film did an excellent job. RIP Tamara Dobson.
 "Could Have Been Better" March 28, 2007
sdennis1075 (BX, NY)
The movie was okay. If you like movies from the 70's, then this is another flick to add to your collection. Tamara Dobson is definitly
one tough sista.
RIGHT ON! SWEET SISTAH! March 5, 2007
C. Martinez (NJ)
Simply one of the best, fun and campy, cult films of the 1970's. Even today 2007, this movie is alot of fun. Rest in peace Tamara Dobson, you were and always will be "a whole lotta woman!"
She Isn't Some Lame Wonder Woman February 19, 2007
Mr. Richard D. Coreno (Berea, Ohio USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As bad as a man as Shaft is, he wouldn't play with Cleopatra Jones if he thought for one minute she was on her last nerve, and it was shredding fast.
Tamara Dobson portrays a special agent who is busting up a drug pipeline from Turkey to the United States that is operated by Mommy (Shelley Winters). I hope I don't ruin the ending for you, but keep in mind the movie isn't titled, Mommy.
I always found the film a parody of James Bond and the other tough white heroes back in the day who would gently set the lady aside before punching out the villains, with the hero capturing her heart in the end. Cleopatra Jones disarms the bad guys with her charm, but is also cooking up some knuckle sandwiches to take them out with when the time is right.
Dobson does a great job in a role that may have been nearly impossible to pull off well. Such over-the-top characters have to be difficult to portray - there is a fine line between acting well or making the character the buffoonish Rambo - but Dobson does a great job.
The DVD cover is a pretty poor updated version to the original artwork. The movie is from 1973, not 2003 and the artwork should make that point.
If you are looking for a movie that packs a punch, run quickly away from the usual suspects and get Cleopatra Jones.
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