CLEOPATRA JONES
Special Features: 50th Anniversary
Model-turned-actress Tamara Dobson stars as Cleopatra Jones, "Special Agent to the President" who is on a mission both business and personal to stop drugs from flowing into her community and eliminate them at the source. Featuring Bernie Casey as Cleopatra's lover Reuben Master and two-time Academy Award® winner Shelley Winters as the evil drug lord known simply as "Mommy," CLEOPATRA JONES arrived as the Blaxpoitation genre was finding mainstream popularity, seeking to offer a more complex depiction of Black femininity and unity through Black Power instead of internal strife in the community. DIR Jack Starrett; SCR Max Julien, Sheldon Keller; PROD Bill Tennant. U.S., 1973, color, 89 min. RATED PG
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 89 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
Genre: Crime thriller
