Slaughter (1972 film)

Slaughter
Film poster
Directed byJack Starrett
Written byDon Williams
Mark Hanna
Produced byMonroe Sachson
StarringJim Brown
Stella Stevens
Rip Torn
Don Gordon
Marlene Clark
Cameron Mitchell
CinematographyRosalio Solano
Edited byClarence C. Reynolds
Renn Reynolds
Music byLuchi de Jesus
Production
companies
JayJen II Productions
Slaughter 1 Limited Partnership
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • September 12, 1972 (1972-09-12)
Running time
91 min.
CountryUnited States
Budget$750,000[1]
Box office$10 million[2] or $2.5 million[3]

Slaughter is a 1972 blaxploitation film directed by Jack Starrett and starring Jim Brown as a former Green Beret captain seeking revenge for a murder. Stella Stevens, Rip Torn, Don Gordon and Cameron Mitchell co-star. This film was followed by a sequel the following year, Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973).

  1. ^ Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press, 1992 p 200
  2. ^ Murphy, Mary (Mar 24, 1973). "Don Williams: Street Kid to Legitimate Financial Success". Los Angeles Times. p. b7.
  3. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-8357-1776-2. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada