Friday Foster (film)
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Friday Foster is a 1975 blaxploitation film, written and directed by Arthur Marks, and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto co-starred. It was an adaptation of the eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip that had run from 1970 until 1974.
Plot
Friday Foster (Grier) is a magazine photographer who refuses to heed her boss's admonitions against becoming involved in the stories to which she is assigned. After witnessing an assassination attempt on the nation's wealthiest African-American and then seeing her best friend murdered, Friday finds herself targeted for death. She teams up with private detective Colt Hawkins (Kotto) to investigate, and soon, the two are hot on the trail of plot to eliminate the country's African-American political leadership.
In addition to the standard blaxploitation plot elements, the film also dealt with the themes of the power and importance of African-American political unity and the potential threat thereto posed not only by the perceived white power structure, but also by those African-Americans willing to betray that goal in search of reward from that establishment.
Tagline: Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!
Cast
- Pam Grier — Friday Foster
- Carl Weathers — Yarbro
- Eartha Kitt — Madame Rena
- Ed Cambridge — Jake Wayne
- Godfrey Cambridge — Ford Malotte
- Jason Bernard — Charles Foley
- Jim Backus — Enos Griffith
- Julius Harris — Monk Riley
- Paul Benjamin — David Lee Hart
- Rosalind Miles — Cloris Boston
- Scatman Crothers — Noble Franklin
- Ted Lange — Fancy Dexter
- Thalmus Rasulala — Blake Tarr
- Tierre Turner — Cleve
- Yaphet Kotto — Colt Hawkins
