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| | Amazon.com: Detroit 9000: DVD: Arthur Marks,Hari Rhodes,Alex Rocco,Whit Vernon,Ernie Winstanley,Herb Jefferson Jr.,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | This snappy, cynical cop thriller was marketed as a "blaxploitation" film when released in 1973, but it's really a mixed-cast godson of The French Connection and The Seven Ups set in the racially volatile cauldron of 1970s Detroit. |
 | | "Detroit 9000" is the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" of Blaxploitation, in that it goes beyond the genre but still keeps the mainstays intact. |
 | | During the time of production, "9000" was the Detroit Police radio code for "officer down," however that radio term was phased out by the early 1980s. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Z4SF?v=glance (1964 words) |
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