Three the Hard Way (film)
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Three the Hard Way | |
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Directed by | Gordon Parks, Jr. |
Written by | Eric Bercovici Jerrold L. Ludwig |
Starring | Fred Williamson Jim Brown Jim Kelly |
Release date(s) | 1974 |
Running time | 89 min. |
Country | U.S.A. |
Language | English |
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Three the Hard Way was a 1974 action film starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly, written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig and directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.. The film is regarded as one of the finest of the blaxploitation movies of the 1970s.
[edit] Plot
A white supremacist and his fascist sect plan to poison the United States water supply. The water supplies of the cities of Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles are targeted. The toxin will not harm whites, only African-Americans, and the agent is lethal. Protagonists Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, and Fred Williamson attempt to foil the evil plot by any means necessary. The film was shot on location in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.