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 Buddy Baker
Cinematography Harry J. May
Edited by Stanley Frazen
Distributed by American International Pictures
Orion Pictures Corporation
Release dates
  • December 25, 1975 (1975-12-25)
Running time
 89 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Friday Foster is a 1975 American 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!"

Plot

Friday Foster (Grier) is a ex-magazine model turned 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 Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala) and then seeing her best friend Cloris Boston (Miles) 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.

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