Three the Hard Way (film)

Three the Hard Way is a 1974 action blaxploitation film starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly, written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig and directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. Featuring the three biggest black action stars of the 1970s, in their first movie together, the film chronicled the groups adventures in foiling the plot of white supremacists plotting to kill the black population of the United States by poisoning the water supply. According to The New York Times, the theatrical version ran 93 minutes. A PG version distributed to television and released on Xenon VHS tape runs 105 minutes. The Warner DVDFilm Favorites Urban Action runs 89 minutes and is missing a song cut from the theatrical version and some footage of boats, cars, etc.cut from the TV version but includes the language and nudity. The theatrical version contains scenes of three topless women, but these scenes were reshot with them clothed for the TV version.

Jimmy Lait and his girlfriend, Wendy, come across Jimmys friend, House, wounded and dying. Lait learns from House that he had escaped from a secret medical experimentation facility. Later in the hospital, a delirious House tells Lait that there is someone who aims to kill us all and that they have a way of doing it. However, Lait has to return to the studio to supervise a recording session with a group hes producing, The Impressions who also sing the soundtrack for the movie. He leaves Wendy Sheila Frazier Super Fly, The Super Cops, Starsky and Hutch to watch over House in the hospital.While Wendy talks to Jimmy on the phone outside of the room, two men climb through the window and shoot House in cold blood. Wendy walks back in as this is happening and shes kidnapped by the assassins. After finding out about her kidnapping, Jimmy begins a quest to find the whereabouts of his girlfriend, but encounters many attackers trying to stop him. He soon realizes that the job is too much for one man, so he enlists the help of his friends Jagger Daniels and Mister Keyes named Mister by his mother so people would be forced to show him respect, and the three start a rampage of gun fights, fist fights, and explosions to save their race. ........

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