| Foxy Brown | |
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| Directed by | Jack Hill |
| Written by | Jack Hill |
| Produced by | Buzz Feitshans |
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| Cinematography | Brick Marquard |
| Edited by | Chuck McClelland |
| Music by | Willie Hutch |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $2.46 million[1][2] |
Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character who takes on a gang of drug dealers who killed her boyfriend.[3] The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Truck Turner. The film uses Afrocentric references in clothing and hair. Grier starred in six blaxploitation films for American International Pictures.
While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the United Kingdom under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.[4]
- ^ Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press, 1992 p 202
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 300. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
- ^ "Pam Grier looks back on blaxploitation: 'At the time some people were horrified'". The Los Angeles Times. June 4, 2010. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
- ^ "Video Nasties Seizures". melonfarmers.co.uk. Retrieved October 26, 2022.