Friday Foster (film)
| Friday Foster | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Arthur Marks |
| Produced by | Arthur Marks |
| Written by |
Arthur Marks Orville H. Hampton |
| Starring |
Pam Grier Carl Weathers Eartha Kitt Paul Benjamin Yaphet Kotto |
| Music by | Luchi De Jesus |
| Cinematography | Harry J. May |
| Editing by | Stanley Frazen |
| Distributed by |
American International Pictures Orion Pictures Corporation |
| Release dates |
 December 25, 1975 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
Friday Foster is a 1975 blaxploitation film, written and directed by Arthur Marks, and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It was an adaptation of the 1970-74 eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón and Gray Morrow. This was Grier's final film with American International Pictures. The tagline on the film's poster is "Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!"
Characters and story
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 a 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.
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