Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced this past week that 1970’s
blaxploitation queen, Pam Grier, will be get the royal hi-def treatment on Feb.
9 with the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release of director William Girdler’s Sheba,
Baby.
She was the revenge-seeking Coffy in cult director Jack
Hill’s summer of 1973 hit film of the same name. She teamed with Hill the following year for Foxy
Brown, a film that made her a screen sensation (a star in own right)
and then in 1975 she starred as private detective, Sheba Shayne, in Sheba,
Baby.
She was — and for that matter, still is — the complete
on-screen package for exploitation and action films. Sexy, talented and always ready to rumble,
you absolutely believe that’s she’s the real deal.
So when her father is given the shakedown treatment by the
local mob, Sheba is lickety-split on a plane and we can honestly say that
Louisville will never be the same.
Teaming with her dad’s partner (and her former love interest), Brick
Williams (Austin Stoker — who would also rise to star status after John
Carpenter’s 1976 release of Assault on Precinct 13, plus as
Virgil in Roots), Sheba takes on the local mob (run by D'Urville Martin)
and the higher ups, controlled by a sinister figured named “Shark” (Dick
Merrifield), and by end credits they are all TOAST!!!
Bonus features for Sheba, Baby include commentary by
screenwriter and producer David Sheldon (Grizzly, Day of the Animals, The Manitou,
etc.), who is joined by film critic Nathaniel Thompson, newly prepared video
session with Sheldon and the featurette titled “Pam Grier: The AIP Years.”
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