Black Eye (film)

Black Eye
Directed byJack Arnold
Screenplay byMark Haggard
Jim Martin
Based onMurder on the Wild Side
by Jeff Jacks
StarringFred Williamson
CinematographyRalph Woolsey
Edited byGene Ruggiero
Music byMort Garson
Production
companies
Pat Rooney Productions
Jerry Buss Presentations
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • May 17, 1974 (1974-05-17)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Black Eye[1] is a 1974 [2] American neo-noir[3] action and blaxploitation film produced by Pat Rooney,[4] directed by Jack Arnold and starring Fred Williamson.[5] The film was based on the 1971 novel Murder on the Wild Side by Jeff Jacks.[6]

  1. ^ "Black Eye". Monthly Film Bulletin. 41 (480). London: British Film Institute: 219. 1974-01-01.
  2. ^ Black Eye, retrieved 2019-04-12
  3. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
  4. ^ "Patrick Rooney". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  5. ^ Black Eye, retrieved 2019-04-12
  6. ^ "Jeff Jacks". IMDb. Retrieved 9 April 2019.