Cool Breeze (film)

Cool Breeze

Original Theatrical Poster
Directed by Barry Pollack
Produced by Gene Corman
Screenplay by Barry Pollack
Based on The Asphalt Jungle 
by W. R. Burnett
Starring Thalmus Rasulala
Jim Watkins
Judy Pace
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Raymond St. Jacques
Music by Solomon Burke
Cinematography Andy David
Edited by Morton Tubor
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
 July 2, 1972[1]
Running time
 101 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English

Cool Breeze is a 1972 American blaxploitation film directed by Barry Pollack, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[3] Cool Breeze is loosely based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel, and is a remake of the 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle with a predominately all-black cast.[4]

Plot

Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.[4]

After his release, Jones returns to Los Angeles and proposes the idea to ‘the Money Man’ Bill Mercer and "Stretch" Finian, in hopes that Mercer would provide the $50,000 seed money needed to set up the heist. Jones recommends using profits from the heist to start a community bank to support black-owned businesses,[4] in addition the bank could be used to launder illegal business activities. Unbeknownst to Jones, Mercer is having financial difficulty and has little money. However, he agrees to provide the funds, but secretly plans to keep all the loot for himself. To accomplish the heist, Mercer and Jones assemble a group of men consisting of Travis Battle (‘the Muscle Man’) a well-known career criminal, Roy Harris (‘the Box Man’) an expert safe-cracker transformed into a Christian minister, and John Battle (‘the Driver’) an honest business man and half-brother of Travis. Unfortunately, after the successful robbery, the group finds themselves caught up in a string of unhappy accidents and double crosses.

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