SHEBA, BABY [BLU-RAY + DVD]

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• Release Year: 1975
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Plot: Fresh off her career defining roles for Jack Hill in Coffy and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier continued her domination of the Blaxploitation genre in cult filmmaker William Girdler's (The Manitou, Abby) 'Sheba, Baby'...; ; Grier plays Sheba Shayne, a private eye based in Chicago who is called to her hometown to stop the local mob boss (played by 'that bad D'Urville Martin', Black Caesar, Dolemite) from moving in on her father's loan business. Aided by her father's partner, Brick Williams, (Austin Stoker, Assault on Precinct 13, Battle for the Planet of the Apes) Sheba finds out that the violent thugs aren't going away without a fight. Car bombs, gun fights and boat chases ensue whilst armed with her curves, street smarts and a .44, Sheba is in for a bloodbath!; ; Grier would appear in three Blaxploitation classics in 1975 (the others were Bucktown and Friday Foster), where she was at the top of her game and genre, with the Los Angeles Times calling her 'cool, tough and glamorous - a female fantasy Wonder Woman', further cementing her status as the first female action star.;
• Cast: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Dick Merrifield, Christopher Joy, Charles Kissinger, Charles Broaddus, Maurice Downs, Ernest Cooley, Edward Reece Jr., William Foster Jr., Bobby Cooley, Paul Grayber, Sylvia Jacobson, Leroy Clark Jr., Mike Clifford, Rose Ann Deel, Clayton Rose, Frank Scroi, Bobby Evans, Bobby Stewart, James Durston, Robert Drane, Melvin Jones, Herman Thompson, Bill Wilson, Mary Minor, Henriette Brands, Joyce Jones, Bobby Davis, Walter Evans, Charles Norton, Bill Embry, Dennis Williams, Mike Adams, Phil Kelley, Lloyd Poore, Mary Perries, Jackie Patterson, Richard Taylor, Joan Ray, Toni Gorman, Tara Lang, Eugenia Care, William Girdler, David Sheldon, William L. Asman, Bub Asman, Jack Davies, Monk Higgins, Alex Brown, John Asman, James Tabler, J. Patrick Kelly III
• Director: William Girdler
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: American International Pictures (AIP), Orion Pictures Corporation, Mid America Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Arrow Films
• Media Format: Movie