"He aims to please." Well, he misses. Based on
Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis, the same novel adapted into the superior British crime thriller GET CARTER (1971), this blaxploitation version is slow, dull, and badly written, but manages to depict a convincingly seedy Los Angeles criminal
milieu.
Tyrone Tackett (Bernie Casey) arrives in town for the funeral of his brother Cornell, who drowned after crashing his car through a railing. Trying to determine if Cornell was murdered, Tyrone gets no help from Cornell's belligerent ex-girlfriend, nor from his aloof daughter Rochelle (Candy All).
As he travels through different levels of the criminal underworld he...
Released:
1972
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins