Schwarze Revange (1976)

Schwarze Revange: Directed by Jamaa Fanaka. With Jerri Hayes, Ernest Williams II, Charles D. Brooks III, Leopoldo Mandeville. A Naive Country Girl from Mississippi comes to town with an aunt to the Big City. She takes up with her family and goes out with them and meets a guy. A loser, pill-popping head nothing who is involved with the local street gang. She Falls in love with him, but he gets arrested and goes to jail. With the $5K bail over his head, she tries a couple of ways both good and bad to raise money to get him out only to learn he really is a loser and doesn’t love her. She proves for a Country Girl she is smart and resourceful.

“A low budget film, somewhat less exploitive than most of the blaxploitation films of its time, u0026quot;Emma Maeu0026quot; tells the story of a young woman from a small town in the south who comes to live with her relatives in the city after being orphaned, who falls in love with a young hood who gets her to commit crimes for him. The film does have some nice touches. It manages to catch the feel of the inner city of the 1970u0026#39;s far better than some of the slicker productions of its era. But the script lets the rest of the movie down (itu0026#39;s just too hard to believe that these people can commit these crimes so easily, and without much fear of getting. I really wish I could have liked it better.”