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Black Belt Jones (1974)  link to Black Belt Jones on IMDb  

Number: 227

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IMDb Rating:
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6.4/10 (1580 votes)

Country: USA, 85 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Comedy

Director(s): Robert Clouse

Cast: Jim Kelly (as Black Belt Jones), Gloria Hendry (as Sydney), Scatman Crothers (as Pop Byrd), Mel Novak (as Blue Eyes), Alex Brown (as Plummer)

Medium: VHS tape,

Storyline: The Mafia's Don learns that the City is planning a new civic center, and is buying the land where it will be, to make easy money when the city council will buy it. The one piece the Don doesn't have yet, is the old African-American karate school owned by Papa Byrd. Big Tuna, the Mafia Don's right hand man, goes to Pinky, their representative in that area and they tell him that he owes them $250,000 but instead of paying, they want him to get Papa Byrd's school. Pinky tries to muscle the karate master into handing out the property title, but he throws him out. A teacher calls Black Belt Jones, a friend of Papa Byrd, to talk to him about this, but before he does Pinky and his thugs accidentally kills Papa Byrd in a second visit. Before dying in friends' arms, Byrd says that the school belongs to Sydney - whom nobody knows. Black Belt Jones knows that Sydney is Byrd's daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she was a child. Black Belt asks a friend of his who works for the Government, to ...

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1