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  • Actor Tamara Dobson stands imperiously, wearing a fur coat and holding a rifle under her shoulder.
  • Actor Tamara Dobson wears a fur coat and holds a rifle.
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CLEOPATRA JONES

9:35

Saturday, January 25

(1973, Jack Starrett) “She’s 6 feet 2 inches of Dynamite!” Long-legged, kung fu-kicking temptress Tamara Dobson is Special Agent Cleo Jones, out to rid the ghetto of dope-dealing queenpin “Mommy” (Shelley Winters), in this hit merging of the Blaxploitation and Chopsocky genres. Co-produced (in Technicolor and Panavision) by Hong Kong mogul Run Run Shaw. With Foxy Brown’s Antonio Fargas as “Doodlebug.” 35mm. Approx. 89 min.

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