Slaughter

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Meet Slaughter.
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You know what they say about these dudes?
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They all got rhythm.
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Jim Brown is Slaughter.
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Welcome to the party.
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Well, I hope you're better with that knife than you were that big black car.
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‘Cuz I’ma jam it up your...
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It's not only his name.
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It's his business.
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My latest on your one time, baby.
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I'm gonna kill him.
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And anybody else that gets him out way.
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Cameron Mitchell is the man. Who the hell do you think you are?
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Rip Torn is the mob.
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You're beautifu, Mario.
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But you're slow.
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I run this operation. You're too stupid to know it.
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Stella Stevens is the girl.
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Are you disappointed?
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No.
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That's good.
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To my health.
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You want him, don’t you?.
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Yes. Yes, I want him.
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They all wanted Slaughter.
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And they all got him.
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Jim Brown is Slaughtered]].
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Baddest cat that ever walked the earth.
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We're not talking about actors.
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We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back.
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She'll live and I'll get her another body.
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I know they’re gonna catch me me but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, Doctor, help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's the primary importance that man should want to meet.
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Hey, that's right.
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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And we want to get loaded.
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You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in Hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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Thanks for joining us for another episode of The American International Podcast.
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I'm Jeff Markin.
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And I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And for this episode we'll be traveling to South America with a one man revenge squad Slaughter from 1972.
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Slaughter was directed by Jack Starrett, written by Don Williams and Mark Hanna,
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produced by Monroe Sachson for American International Pictures.
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Slaughter stars Jim Brown as Slaughter.
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Stella Stevens as Ann Cooper.
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Rip Torn as Dominic Hoffo.
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Cameron Mitchell as A.W. Price.
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Don Gordon as Harry Bastoli.
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Marlene Clark as Kim Walker.
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Robert Phillips as Frank Morelli.
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And also stars Marion Brash as Jenny.
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Norman Alfe as Mario Felice.
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Eddie LoRusso as Little Al.
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Buddy Garion as Eddie.
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Roger Cudney as Gio.
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Lance Winston as Intern.
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Juan JoseLaboriel as Uncle.
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Francisca Lopez de Laboriel as Aunt.
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Slaughter jumps right into the opening credits as a funky Billy Preston song plays the theme from Slaughter.
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We see scenes from the upcoming movie,
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colorfully presented.
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And then shots fired into the shape of Jim Brown's face.
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And then the movie starts.
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The movie gets our attention right away with a car explosion.
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Right, the older man and woman are walking to their car.
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They get in started and then die in a fire explosion.
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Oh, wait, they're not completely dead.
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No, apparently they've been brought to the hospital.
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And Captain Slaughter is there.
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A woman tries to get her attention.
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This is Kim Walker and she says she's from Black Is magazine.
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And she'd like a few moments of his time.
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He doesn't want to talk right now, but she's determined to get a story.
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He says it's a well-known fact that his father has underworld connections.
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And Slaughter is a former green beret.
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So that is something that would interest her readers.
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And he's black.
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That's good
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copy.
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Slaughtertells her to buzz off.
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He walks over to another couple.
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His aunt and uncle who are waiting in the lobby.
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Then a surgeon comes out to talk to them and I see right away that it's going to be a bad news.
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Slaughter assures the surgeon that he sure that he did everything he could.
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His aunt solves into Slaughter's broad shoulders.
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And uncle says that he'll take care of all the arrangements.
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Slaughter nods and leaves without even saying thank you.
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As he's leaving, Kim Walker does try to get his attention again, but Slotter blows her off and it goes outside.
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But she takes this picture, which maybe is important.
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I don't know.
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Now Slaughter is visiting Jenny.
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Jenny was a friend of Slaughter's father.
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And she was aware of the activities that he had been involved in.
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He's also wearing this grass green nightie as she entertains Slotter.
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And he says that Slaughter's dad was a pro who knew what he was doing.
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But my mom wasn't, said Slotter.
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He wants a name.
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Who's responsible?
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But Jenny is unwilling to part with that information, which will surely get her killed.
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No, Slaughter's father died for that information.
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So she feels the need to keep that to herself for now.
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I don't blame her.
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She pleads with Slaughter to see things her way, which he does, but he still wants that information.
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Surely his dad would have confided in her.
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But Jenny insists that she can't tell him.
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And then as a reward for her silence, shots from outside penetrate the window and riddle Jenny's body.
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Slaughter grabs his gun and shoots back in the direction the shooting came from.
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Then he runs to the window, but the saline is nowhere to be seen.
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I just want to mention that after she gets hit, she falls back onto the couch so dramatically,
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almost as if she launched herself up and back.
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Once he sees that there's nobody to shoot at, he goes back to Jenny and apologizes.
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She seems to think that this was inevitable.
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And now she's going to talk.
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Jenny says he, Slaughter's dad, thought that they would send granality and says that he's going to be at the airport tonight.
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And then she dies.
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Slaughter goes to the phone to report her murder anonymously saying he's just a friend.
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Then he returns home.
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He seems to be contemplating his next steps when he hears a sound from the bathroom of his apartment.
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He shoots a few holes in the door and then mourns whoever's in there to come on out.
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And Kim Walker nervously peers out from behind the door.
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Slaughter is disgusted.
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I could have killed you. You don't bitch.
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She tries to explain.
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And he tells her to shut up.
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She's still claiming to be a reporter on the hunt for a story, but he's not buying that.
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He demands to know who she really is and she fesses up.
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She read about him and she wants to get to know him.
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She says batting her eyes.
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Bullshit, he roars.
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He tells her to get her narrow ass out of here, but he's the one to throw her out bodily into the hallway.
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And well, she's naked at this point just carrying your clothes.
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She's wearing a hat.
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Oh, yes, she does leave her head on.
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And so she's darkers in the hallway.
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Slaughter lays down on his bed and mourns his parents and his lost security deposit.
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Now he found herself at an airfield at night.
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A car pulls up and three men get out.
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Slaughter's voice calls out Grinaldi.
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And before the men can react, Slaughter shoots Grinaldi in the hat.
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The other two grab a briefcase and run towards a waiting sessna.
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Slaughter's cases after them.
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When the plane starts moving, Slaughter runs to the car they left behind.
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And he is somehow able to outrun the plane.
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He keeps crashing his car into it trying to disable it by hitting the wing.
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And it works.
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The wing bursts into the plane.
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A passenger jumps down to the plane.
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This is Dominic Hoffo.
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We'll see more of him later.
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Oh, yeah, we will.
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Slaughter shoots and misses.
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Then the police arrive.
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and collar Slaughter.
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He was later escorted into an undecorated office if you don't count the mattress leaning against the wall.
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It looks more like a warehouse.
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It does.
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There's empty.
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It looks like washing machine boxes.
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Just lying around.
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Scared here and there.
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The office belongs to AW Price.
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He sits at a small cluttered desk.
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And Price asks Slaughter who the hell does he think he is?
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He killed him at night.
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And that's murder one.
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He has a confession that he'd like Slaughter to sign.
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And Slaughter takes the paper and starts to look it over.
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Don't read it.
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Man, just sign it, says Price.
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Slaughter throws the paper down and grabs Price by the necktie.
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He takes Price's pen and signs the paper.
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Still holding Price and never taking his eyes off him.
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And tells Price to jam it up his ass.
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Price asks him who the hell does he think he is.
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Boy.
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And then he asks the question again in a much more important way.
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In a much more racist way.
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AW Price introduces himself as the chief inspector of the US Treasury.
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And Slaughter messed up their whole sting operation.
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This is the Treasury office?
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Yeah, we never find out what Huffa and the other bad guys are doing.
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We have no idea what their actual crimes are.
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But anyway.
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Price says that they had the place staked out,
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but Slaughter killed the wrong man, let the right one get away,
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and cause all the evidence to be burned up in that plane explosion.
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Price figures that Slaughterr owes them one now.
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And if Slaughter helps them, they'll help him.
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The man who got away is the one who killed his daddy.
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Slotter asks who this is.
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He still wants a name.
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And Price tells him that he can give him that information.
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And if he takes care of the problem both of them are having,
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the sign confession will be destroyed.
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Price tells Slaughter they can get him in as long as he can take care of the rest.
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Slaughter asks where he has to go and Price tells him South America
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and pushes a folder towards Slotter.
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It's all in there, he says.
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Slaughter coms to the file and says,
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"You know something, Price? You're a prick."
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Price knows he is.
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Now we're at Dominic Hoffo's estate.
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His girlfriend Ann, played by Stella Stevens,
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is swimming in a round pool.
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Hoffo's on the phone with someone called Mario.
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Hoffo tells Mario he will send Ann down with the documents,
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then follow her shortly afterwards.
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[Music]
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And now we find ourselves outside the airport to Tela Ciudad,
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somewhere in South America.
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Slaughter is walking through the airport
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and a sky-cap is handling his luggage for him.
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They go outside to the curb and a car pulls up,
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and the driver says, "Get in, Slaughter."
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And we recognize the driver as Kim Walker.
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Slaughter appears to be pondering whether or not this is a good idea.
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Slaughter seems to have accepted the ride,
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because the next thing we see is the two of them in the car together.
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Slaughter asks Kim, "So you and Price are working together?"
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She says yes, and he says this does not surprise him.
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Kim tells Slaughter that she can get him a partner,
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codename, Marcus.
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Slaughter says, "Oh no, he works alone."
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But Kim tells him that he'll do what he's told,
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and Slaughter isn't mues that this thought was even presented to him.
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Kim says the local government is in on this with them.
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So Slaughter needs to not shoot everyone he sees.
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They pull up at a hotel with a very violent pool.
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It's just churning for no apparent reason.
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Slaughter gets down the car and tells Kim that if the man he's looking for is here,
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he's going to kill him and anyone else that gets in his way.
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Then in a thrilling sequence, Slaughter goes to the reservation desk
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and checks into room 614.
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Never dull mama with this guy.
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He's at the Casino Real.
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Once he has his key, we see him walking down a huge hallway to his room.
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He opens the door, goes inside, and finds out there's somebody there waiting for him.
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Slaughter instantly runs over to him and slugs him,
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sending him into a brick-or-brack shelf and totally destroying it.
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The guy did say hi, but Slaughter is the type to hit first and ask questions later.
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Slaughter isn't going to give this man a chance to fight back.
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He goes after him again and the two of them tumble out the window and land in the swimming pool.
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The man tells him that he's hairy but stolely.
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But Slaughter punches him in the face again.
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Harry comes back up from the water only to receive another punch in the face.
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Harry shouts out Marcus and Slaughter stops his onslaught.
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Now that's the password, baby, he says.
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Now they can be friends.
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He was going to kill him if that password hadn't been uttered.
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The two men, now partners, are dining alfresco by a different pool.
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This hotel has a lot of pools.
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Harry tells Slaughter, who's holding a computer punch card,
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that the whole organization of bad guys is now one giant computer.
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Meaning, names, dollar amounts, and everything else is all stored on one of those room-sized beasts.
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Slaughter marvels that his family was killed for a punch card.
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Harry says no. His pops found out something big and secret.
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Like the location of this computer supplies Slotter.
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And we are never going to find out anymore about this organization than that.
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The computer, and it's got stuff on it.
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Slaughter asks Harry who the number one guy of this organization is.
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And Harry tells him it's Mario Filice, but killing people isn't Mario's style.
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The one to watch out for is Dominic Hoffo, Felice's number one.
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But Slaughter's happy because this gives Slaughter two possibilities.
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Harry also tells Slaughterthat the rumor is, Hoffo is trying to get rid of Felice.
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Now we're watching a car drive through the countryside.
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It soon pulls up to a ranch. Horses are clomping everywhere.
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Ann gets out of the car and she's escorted to see Mario Felice.
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She's carrying a briefcase.
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She tells him she's brought her shipment and he invites her to sit, have a drink, and watch a meat.
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Felice asks Ann about her man, Dominic. Ann says he's fine.
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And we'll be coming in on the next plane.
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He tells her that Dominic is a very ambitious man. And that must be very exciting for her.
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Felice also says that Hoffo reminds him of his younger self before he learned that force was not the solution to all problems.
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Ann reminds Mario that she and Dominic are together for whatever do be his reasons, certainly not love.
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And that Dominic tells her nothing.
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So whatever information Felice is trying to finagle out of her, she can't provide it.
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Felice accepts this and offers her a toast. Salute.
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Now we found ourselves back in Slaughter's room with Slaughter and Harry.
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Slaughter is dressed up. He's wearing a tuxedo.
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He's planning to go to the casino where the computer might be found.
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Harry tells him that this is an exclusive casino and he won't be able to just crash the party.
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Slaughter doesn't care. He has Harry if he's coming along and Harry says yes, he's coming.
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But then he warns Slaughter that there are some big bad mean guys down there.
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So if the computer is there, they will be protecting it.
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Slaughter asks if Harry has his shit, meaning his weapon.
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Harry does and Slaughter says, and I got mine. At the casino, Slaughter tells Harry to get inside
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and find out if this place has enough juice to run one of those massive computers.
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You have to remember that it's not like plugging a laptop into the wall.
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These things were the size of a house.
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They agreed to meet back at the car after they're done infiltrating.
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Slaughter knocks on the door and a man answers.
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This is Eddie, one of Hoffo's goons.
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Which there are many.
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Eddie asks Slaughter if he has an invitation.
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Yep, says Slaughter pointing his gun at Eddie.
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Then Eddie leads him to the gambling tables and Slaughter tells him to let his boss know that Slaughter's here.
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Eddie goes to Hoffo's table to relay the message.
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Suddenly the room gets very quiet, even the music stops.
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And he was sitting with Huffle's ex-particular notice of Slaughter who walks up to the roulette wheel.
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Hoffo tells Eddie to get Mario and Eddie scuttles off.
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As Huffo gives Slaughter the stink eye.
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Slaughter looks over where Ann is sitting and their eyes meet.
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Slaughter puts some money on the roulette wheel table and then everyone just resumes gambling.
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And the music starts up again.
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We go back on side where we see Harry has just scaled the side of the garden wall with a grappling hook and a rope.
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Only to discover that there was a ladder attached and he could have used that instead.
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We go back inside and Hoffo has noticed that Ann has been eyeballing Slotter.
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He asks for what she's looking at.
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I hand some man she says.
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As for Slaughter, he's moved away from the roulette table and it's now playing Blackjack.
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Then we go back with Harry.
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He's lowering himself into the building and he ends up entering the casino's chapel.
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Okay.
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Where he's startled by the crucifix.
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Yeah, there's a fisheye view of Jesus hanging from the cross.
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This is the second time we've seen a shot using a fisheye lens and not the last by any measure.
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Harry makes his way out into the hallway.
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He ducks into the shadows as someone walks by.
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Then Harry goes into another room.
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This room has a refrigerator and the electrical box he's looking for.
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He starts to examine it but someone comes in and switches on the light.
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Harry ducks behind that refrigerator door as the newcomer opens it.
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It's a waiter who opens the refrigerator door and takes out a tray of canopies.
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Harry stays hidden until the man leaves and shuts the light off.
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Then he goes to the fridge and helps himself to a snack.
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Back at the gambling tables, the clichés come in.
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He sits with Slaughter.
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He takes over for the dealer at the blackjack table.
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And in coded language, slaughter tells Mario that he's there on business and for as long as it takes to complete that business.
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Mario flips over his hand and says 21 while smirking.
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Then slaughter pulls the computer punch card out of his jacket and sets it down with his ace and queen.
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Blackjack says Slaughter.
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Mario calls slaughter a lucky man.
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I'm at the communal rail and then he goes to leave.
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As he goes, I'm going to cofo stop slaughter to tell him that they don't want his kind here.
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What kind is that my brother asked Slaughter?
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But Hoffo has no answer.
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Slaughter walks over to where Ann's sitting and they exchange smiles.
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From across the room, Mario tells Hoffo to keep cool because it was his oddheadedness that brought slaughter here in the first place.
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Slaughter looks back at Ann and leaves.
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It's really funny when he's leaving.
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There's a second door man, not Eddie, who tries to shut the door in him and Slaughter just pushes the door back open.
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So he can get that one last look at everybody.
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It's really funny.
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In the car, Harry says that there's not enough juice in that house or run a computer.
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Tough luck says Slaughter.
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Slaughter says he didn't learn much but Mario definitely reacted when he laid down that punch card.
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Harry wants to know their next move.
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Slaughter says, "Call price. I set my trap. You do what you have to do."
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Slaughter's cool upsets Harry who angrily calls him "weird."
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Harry's upset that Slaughter's trap is tantamount to them asking to get killed.
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The next day, Mario is readying to play polo and Dominic Hoffo was there as well and they're discussing the events of the night before.
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It's obvious that Slaughter knows what's going on.
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Hoffo thinks that they should put a hit on him but Mario doesn't pay Dominic to think.
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Nope, that's what gets him in trouble.
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But he wants to know what Slaughter knows.
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He says that there's a right time to kill and this isn't it.
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He's trying to make this a teaching moment for Hoffo.
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Then Mario mounts his horse.
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Ann comes up and apologizes for being late.
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Mario tells her she's just in time.
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He would like her to get to know Slaughter better.
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He's obviously attracted to her.
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And this is something that she's willing and able to do.
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And so she accepts the challenge while looking directly at Dominic.
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Dominic says that if he lays a finger on her, he'll chop offSlaughter's balls.
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Mario tells Hoffo he'll do no such thing.
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He won't do a thing about Slaughter until Mario tells him to.
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Then Mario rides off on his horse.
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Unfortunately, leaving Hoffo and Ann alone.
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Hoffo gets violent with Ann and she yells at him.
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She's just doing what Felice asked of her.
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Next we're on the ranch.
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We hear the worrying of a computer processor.
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Well, that's approximately the size of a house.
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A white lab-coated man walks towards the room
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the sound is coming from.
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And then Hoffo and two of his thugs, Frank and Little Al are there.
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Hoffo gives the man a stack of punch cards to, quote, "microfilm."
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The man reaches in his pocket and pulls out what looks like a black poker chip.
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He ends it to Hoffo who tosses it to Frank who looks it over.
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Whatever this is, it's not enough for Hoffo.
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They're showing reluctance to continue following Dominic's demands
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because they're worried that Felice will find out.
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The man in the lab coat, whose name is Gio, says he's scared.
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So Dominic is going to let him quit.
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Huffle motions to Frank who pulls a sawed off shotgun from his pants
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and starts to load it.
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Gio gets the picture and starts backing away.
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Then he runs but the other door in the courtyard is locked.
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Frank hands the shotgun to Little Al who hesitates
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until Frank pulls out another gun and holds it to Al's head.
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Al no choice now but to shoot Gio in the back
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while standing off somewhere to the side.
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Al looks shocked at what he just did
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but Hoffo congratulates him for doing the right thing.
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Now we're back at the Camino Real where Slaughter and Harry
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are eating pretzels poolside.
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A big plate of pretzels a piece.
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Harry is distracted by Ann who comes out in a bikini.
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Slaughter turns around to see what Harry is staring at.
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Ann takes a chair near the pool and Harry excuses himself to shoot his shot.
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He awkwardly approaches her and gets her to admit that she's alone.
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He asks her if she's free to join him for dinner or something
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but she tells him she's busy for dinner or something.
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Then she excuses herself and walks over to Slaughter's table.
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Hi she says.
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He invites her to have a seat and then he proposes a toast to his own health.
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As their glasses clink we see Hoffo glowering at them
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from a balcony overlooking the pool.
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Slaughter says so they sent you.
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Ann agrees and asks if he's disappointed.
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On the contrary Slaughter says and then we see where Harry went off to.
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He's trying to hit on some of the women to young for him sitting by the pool.
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But one of them says that she has no English and leaves.
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Kim Walker is watching from the pool and she starts heckling Harry's game
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and he accuses her of being price and drag.
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She laughs at this and swims off.
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And now upstairs Slaughter and Ann have proceeded directly to bed.
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They did not pass go.
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They make sweet, sweet love for quite a while.
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It's actually a very tender scene.
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It's set to some of the worst music in this entire movie.
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Now when Harry's room and Kim is there with him,
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they're arguing about how the case is being handled.
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Kim doesn't think it was a good idea for Harry to have gone directly to the casino.
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Harry says he likes Slaughter's style and Kim says that Slaughter's style is going to get people killed.
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But Harry thinks that's better than sitting around the swimming pool all day.
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And now we jump straight to night where Slaughter is walking down a dark street that is completely deserted and whistling.
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Frank and another one of Hoffo's goons are surveilling Slotter from their car.
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Frank says that they all have rhythm, meaning Slaughter who's black or so they say.
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Then he starts the car and tries to run Slaughter over.
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Slaughter runs and is no longer whistling.
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Slaughter ducks into an alley and just as the coast seems clear, he runs into a second car that's after him.
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He continues to evade both cars and the people shooting at him.
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And then the second car hits a garbage can that bursts into flames.
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Why?
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It makes no sense.
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Slaughter starts to scale a wall and turns around as the second car pulls up and the guy in the passenger seat gets out
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since this was the last place that they had seen Slaughter.
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The car peels off while the other continues his search on foot but doesn't get much of a chance because Slotter shoots the man from the top of the wall.
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And we see that the passenger of the original car with Frank gets out of his car, the search on foot as well.
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The driver of the yellow car aims for Slaughter but Slaughter ducks out of the way.
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The driver then somehow rolls his car off a bridge and flips it over, lending upside down in the water.
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Is he dead? I don't know.
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He looks dead, his body floats out the window and Slaughter nods in approval.
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Frank is still driving but then he stops and that extra goon runs up to him and wonders where the other car went.
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Now he found out where Slaughter was headed before he was interrupted and chased by those cars.
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He goes into the Camino Real and up the stairs to the Cantina.
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Where he's meeting with Ann who's waiting for him at a table.
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She says hello and he sits without saying a word.
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She asks what his deal is and he says you don't know, she doesn't.
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He explains that someone tried to kill him tonight and knew exactly where he'd be and when and deny sending him up and says that Mario left orders that he wasn't to be touched.
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What about Hoffo? asks Slaughter
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Ann says let's not do this then and goes to leave but Slaughter grabs her arm and tells her to sit down mama, drawing looks from all the other customers.
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Ann says that she didn't have to be there you know and Slaughter asks why she's there in the first place.
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And she says because she wants to be with him.
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She even got there early. I guess he believes her because next we see they're back in bed.
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Yep, they skipped dinner and go have another tender love scene set to you, possibly even worse music.
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It's really weird how these love scenes aren't hot and heavy.
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They're very gentle and low key for two people who have the hots for each other and just met.
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Now it's a daylight and Slaughter and Ann are walking around the resort.
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He says there's something's wrong and ask her about it and she tells him that she doesn't want to leave him.
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Then don't leave me he says and they continue to their walk.
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Aww, they're so cute together.
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Anne says she has to go back to Dominic. She belongs to him. She was gifted to him eight years ago.
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Slaughter says they stopped owning people a long time ago and anyway he's going to set her free.
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Why? Because he's the baddest cat that ever walked the earth.
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I'm paraphrasing a bit. But he does have that confidence level.
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And an ego.
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He does have an ego.
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As they continue their stroll, Slotter notices that they're being tracked.
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He shoves Ann behind some bushes and then goes after the goons that are following him.
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He punches one and she says another one up and down some stairs.
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Then he ends up on the roof of the hotel. Frank and two other goons are there.
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Frank has a knife. Slaughter recognizes him as the driver of that black car from the night before.
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I'm sure he had a chance to get a good look at him. Slaughter removes his shirt.
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Slaughter hopes that Frank is better at nifing people than he is at vehicular manslaughter.
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And then promises to jam that knife up his ass.
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So on the roof of this hotel, it's Slaughterversus these three guys.
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Slaughter punches Frank and sends him sprawling. So for the moment, he only has to worry about fists.
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The guy with the knife is momentarily disabled.
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Slaughter picks up one of the guys and throws him over the side of the building.
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But by now, Frank is recovered and comes at him with the knife.
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But Slaughter punches him again and sends Frank flying down the stairs.
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Then Slaughter picks up the third goon and throws him into the churning pool in the parking lot below.
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And that man does not emerge from the pool.
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And now we are in Mario Felice's office where Little Al is confessing to Mario about killing Gio.
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And Mario rewards him by ringing a bell summoning two goons,
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who haul Al outside and shoot him.
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Inside, Mario bemoans the lack of respect he's getting from Hoffo and from Slaughter too.
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Telling all this to Eddie the door man.
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Then he makes a phone call.
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He calls Slaughter at the communal rail to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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Mario tells Slaughter that Hoffo will be at the casino tonight.
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Slaughter hangs up the phone and tells Harry to get a tux and and you get herself together.
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They're going out tonight.
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Now we see that Mario is practicing handball.
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He's made the unfortunate decision to call a meeting with Dominic at this time.
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Dominic and Frank and Eddie are watching Mario from an upper balcony.
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Mario asks how things are going with the computer and Hoffo tells them that all is going well.
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Smooth as always, he says.
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Then Mario throws a pocket watch to Dominic and says that he believes this belonged to a friend of his.
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Dominic recognizes it.
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So Al is a rat, he says.
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A dead one says Mario and so are you.
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But Dominic just laughs.
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He tells Mario he's beautiful, but he's slow.
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While Mario has been busy with his casino and polo ponies, they've been moving all the data to another location.
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Hoffo's been running the show and Mario has had no idea.
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Mario then orders Eddie to kill Hoffo.
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Eddie draws a gun on Hoffo and then gives it to him.
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Hoffo calls Mario obsolete and then shoots him against the back wall of the court.
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Dominic walks away and Eddie and Frank bring out their guns to finish the job.
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They use his body for target practice.
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Dominic walks down to a store room and smiles.
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Then we cut back to see Mario's dead body on the floor of the court, a ball bouncing nearby.
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How did it get there?
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We don't know.
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At the casino Harry is trying to hit on a woman who ignores him for as long as she can.
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At another table and is panicky, she wants to go.
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So are tell her to be cool and wonders where Mario is.
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And seconds later, Eddie comes to tell that Mario will see him now.
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Before going Slaughter whispers to Ann that the main switch is in the kitchen and if he's not back in five minutes to pull it.
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He gives her a pack and follows Eddie into the next scene.
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But first we see at Harry's table, he's joined by Frank who pretends to be just a gambler.
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Because Harry doesn't recognize him.
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There was an empty seat available because Harry keeps driving away all the women.
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We see Slaughter going down a hallway to the office and then back at the casino, we see Frank and Harry making a name small talk about where Harry has been, including Chicago.
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Slaughter and Eddie reach Mario's office. Eddie opens the door and motions for slaughter to enter.
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It appears Mario has seated at the desk.
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The lights are dim, but we see a curly hair man sitting there.
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Slaughter's eyes then pushes Eddie into the room. Eddie cries out, "Don't shoot.
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"It's Dominic shoots at the first person to enter the room."
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Eddie spills over Mario's desk and into what we think is Mario's body, but it's just a dummy.
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Slaughter takes off as half-o cursus is bad luck.
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Back in the gambling tables, we watch Anne leave her table to go flip that switch.
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Over with Harry, Frank also stands up as if to leave.
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Then puts Harry in a chocold as the other patrons look on, kind of bored.
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As Harry is slipping into unconsciousness, Frank tells him to say hello to his friends in Dallas.
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And then the door is burst open.
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Slaughter runs into the room with his gun drawn.
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He runs across tables and flips tables. And a shoot out occurs.
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Some people flee if you try to get hold of some of the abandoned cash.
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And the lights go out. So Anne has found that switch.
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Thanks Ann.
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Harry and Slaughter shoot their way outside across the courtyard to the getaway car,
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which is being driven by Ann.
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If they arrange that when we weren't listening to them, they speed off as Frank surveys the carnage.
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He goes inside and sees an injured man who he promptly kicks.
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Then Frank goes back to Dominic.
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The phone rings.
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Dominic tells the caller that Mr. Felice was like a father to him.
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But when Dominic found out he was making a deal with the government, he had to be stopped.
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So not to worry, it will be business as usual around there.
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You forgot the part where he tosses that dummy of Mario aside.
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That's when I first realized it was a dummy.
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After hanging up, half hotels Frank to get slaughter then changes his mind.
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He wants to get Slaughter by himself.
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And tells Frank to bring Ann to him.
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Frank asks how we want her. “Alive," says Dominic.
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Now our back at Slaughter's room and Ann is showering.
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She towels off and goes into the main room where Frank is waiting.
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Dominic wants you back.
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He says he misses you.
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I can see why.
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He tells her to get dressed.
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They've got to go.
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And there's quite a bit of ogling there.
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Slaughter and Harry return to their suite and see that there's no sign of Ann except for her towel on the floor.
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So Slaughter knows that something is wrong.
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In the next scene, Kim is telling Slotter to not go chasing after Hoffo.
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Price is on his way and he's almost there.
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But now Slaughter has two reasons to go after Huffle.
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Harry realizes there's no stopping him.
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So even though Price is the one who signs his paychecks, he volunteers to come with.
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And Slaughter says, okay, man, they leave.
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Kim calls out to Harry since he's going rogue, but Harry ways are off telling her to wait for price.
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Harry andSlaughter go upstairs to their portable armory to prepare.
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Yeah, that's what was in Slaughter's luggage, not clothes.
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00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,000
And now we're back at the casino where Frank is bringing Ann to Hoffo.
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Who's on the phone once again, explaining the data move.
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And now Kim is outside as Price's card drives up.
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She leans in through the window and scolds Price for being late.
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But then consoles him when he moans about the computers being moved.
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Oh no, all that IBM stuff she says.
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And that's probably the most information we've gotten about these stupid computers.
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Kim tells Price that Harry and Slotter went after Hoffo.
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Price says they'll get themselves killed, then tells Kim to get in the car.
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Now we're back with Dominic Hoffo and he's not looking his best these days.
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His shirt is untouched, his hair is a mess, he's drinking.
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But at least Ann is there with him, so he can attack her.
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He forcibly kisses her and throws her down on a desk.
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You want him, don't you, he says, slapping her.
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Yes, I want him, she says, and she punches him in the nose.
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He grabs her and slaps her again, standing her to the floor.
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Where he starts kicking her mercilessly.
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And then we see Harry and Slaughter blasting their way into the casino compound, dispatching many a goon on the way in.
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There are a lot of goons to dispatch.
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And though Harry is standing in the center of this courtyard with people all around him firing at him, he is never hit.
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Also on hand are Frank and Hoffo.
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Everyone takes turns seeking cover and trying to get a shot in.
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There's a moment when Slaughter finds himself face to face with one of the goons, but he's out of ammo.
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So he knocks the guy out with the butt of his gun and takes that moment of peace to reload.
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Eventually Harry and Slaughter make their way inside where they find Ann unconscious on the floor.
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Slotter asks Harry to take care of her, there's something he's got to do.
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He runs outside where he sees Hoffo speeding away in a car.
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While helping Ann get up, Harry hears a noise, it's Frank.
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Frank's outside and accidentally scores a known goal when he kills one of his co-workers.
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Oops. Harry silently creeps out of the office, gun drawn.
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He can front Frank, then shoots him a bunch of times.
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Frank seems very surprised that Harry got the jump on him.
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Harry tells Frank to say hello to his friends and Dallas.
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Now several police cars arrive as to Price and Kim Walker.
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Elsewhere, Hoffo was still trying to get away via automobile, but Slaughter is managing to keep up with him.
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He knows how to run a plane in a car.
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So this is nothing.
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They drive through a village where woman is forced to abandon hanging or laundry to drag her baby away from the path of the oncoming cars.
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Slaughter runs Huffle off an embankment, finally.
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Hoffo's laying bloody in the car and gas is leaking and Slaughter gets out to see the extent of the damage.
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“Get me outa here, heh?" says Hoffo.
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Slaughter asks him who killed his family.
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And Hoffo admits that it was him. I did that. I make a lot of hits. I'm good at it. Now get me outa here, heh?
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Slaughter doesn't respond.
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Hoffo turns up the charm by calling him a stinking N-word.
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So Slaughter helps him out by shooting the gas tank, which naturally explodes.
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Hoffo screams and fear and agony.
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Slaughter gets into his car driving away, listening to his own theme song.
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And that's the end.
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[Music]
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You're listening to the American International podcast, but we're discussing Slaughter from 1972.
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Slaughter had the working titles of Julian Drake and Kill Julian Drake.
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According to an April 10, 1970 LA Times news item, Don Williams and James Pettinotti formed gambit productions with the intention of producing Julian Drake based on an original story by Williams.
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The film with the script by Lee Carle was to be directed in Spain by Richard Lang with Fred Williamson and Rory Calhoun set the star.
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However, none of that happened because on March 15, 1971, Daily Variety announced that Williams had joined Pettruni productions at Universal Pictures, and that Williams and Runi would co-produce Kill Julian Drake, which was pre-written by Marc Canada from Williams' original story.
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Eventually, however, the project was taken to American International for production, where quite a few elements were changed.
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According to its syndicated column by Dorothy Manners, published in March of 1972, Denise Nicholas, star of the TV show Room 222, was initially cast as Slotter's Love Interest, but she did not want to do the new scenes and producers were unwilling to write it out for her.
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She is quoted as saying, "For about a week, I talked it over with my boyfriend, Bill Withers, and was getting more and more nervous because I couldn't make up my mind."
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Nicholas said she eventually collapsed and was rushed to the hospital due to her indecisiveness, after which time she opted out of the film.
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Filming was in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, and the Hotel Camino Real, Mexico City.
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Other scenes were shot at Western International Hotels de México, and interiors were shot at Turbusco Studios.
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Other locations included the Hacienda Lagronde, Neutex Coco, which was used as the computer complex, and the neighborhood of Coyo-Can,
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near the University of Mexico, as the site of the Chase sequence.
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Also used was Mena de Santa Rosa, the location of the final chase, and that is said to be the oldest continuously operating gravel pit in the Western Hemisphere.
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But according to AIP's press materials, the first few scenes of the movie were set in Cleveland, Ohio, though not filmed there.
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Slaughter was considered a low budget production film, costing about $750,000, which was typical of most black exploitation films during this era.
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Brown made the film after a nine month break between movies during which time he worked for the Black Economic Union, a Kansas City Community Development Organization, brown founded in 1968.
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Oh, the picture was shot entirely in Mexico. Slotter is set to a non-specified city in South America.
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In a May 2nd, 1972 interview in the Hollywood Reporter, producer Monroe Sachsen said that the film's locale had to be changed from Mexico to another country, at the request of the Mexican censorship board.
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Despite some of the films financing being provided by a studio is to a busco.
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Sex and complaint that the censorship board was totally against any reference to their country if it shows it in any bad light.
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The article reported that to a busco provided one third of the film's budget, Dress of which came from Sex and Production Company, J Gen 2, and AIP, and Slotter 1 Limited Partnership.
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Slaughter was released on August 16th, 1972 in the United States.
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The box office magazine recommended theater owners play a Billy Preston Slaughter theme and to use travel posters to promote the Mexican location.
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They also suggested starting up a Jim Brown fan club.
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And AIP's press book offered the idea of telling a damaged Mustang similar to the one used in the movie's chase scene with gangster-type sitting in the seats through business areas with the movie's name and showtimes written on the sides of the car.
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Tagdlines for Slaughter include Jim Brown is Slaughter. It's not only his name, it's his business and sometimes is pleasure.
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Slaughter will blow your mind clean out of your head.
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Get Slaughter. The fuzz had a warrant. The mob had a contract. All Slaughter had was his name, but he sure lived up to it.
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The fuzz wanted him alive for a murder rap. The mob wanted him dead for insurance. She wanted him alive for personal reasons.
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Not many men take on the mob. Slaughter did and a slaughter it was.
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At Sullivan's Little Old New York syndicated column reported in September of 1972 that Slaughter was wrecking up 100 G's per week.
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By March of 1973, it was reported that the movie had grossed $10 million.
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Jim Brown considered this one of his three favorite starring roles, the others being the dirty dozen in 1967 and Mars attacks in 1996.
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Box office magazine's reviews said slaughter lives up to its name and blood and violence. The production presented by Samuel Z. Arkoff as one of his first solo efforts.
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Also has a sufficient amount of sex and nudity to make it one of the artist films from A.I.P. of late.
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The characters are interestingly drawn and a solid cast performs inappropriately offbeat fashion.
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Stella Stevens always manages to be better than her material, while ripped torn is often hilarious as a completely vicious, far-out villain.
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The New York Times had nothing positive to say in its review. There is almost nothing of interest in Jack Star at Slaughterr.
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All the bad people die, most 100 or so, shot by Slaughter. And they die poorly.
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I don't mean that in a moral or religious sense, I mean that they tend to double over before a shot is fired.
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Or that when shot, they obviously leap rather than fall from their rooftop purchase.
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Such sloppy stunt work combined with the director's pension for visually distorting his climaxes by means of an anamorphic lens.
679
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Here's the film kind of a haphazard pretentiousness that seems exactly the wrong disposition of an action movie.
680
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Adding Jim Brown plays Slotter as if he hated doing it, which is to his credit.
681
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Hollow Reigns of the Atlantic Constitution wrote, "American International Pictures is not an outfit to let any fat go unexploited.
682
00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Slaughter is its entry in the box office Derby sparked by the success of Shaft, the first of the so-called super spayed films, which I think is offensive.
683
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:12,000
In these days of under employment in the movie business, AIP manages to trap some surprisingly good actors in some astoundingly bad pictures.
684
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine and Ray Milland have all been featured in recent AIP releases.
685
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000
In Slaughter, it is ripped torn who adds no luster to a solid career.
686
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
But Scott Cain of the Atlanta Journal differed from his fellow Atlantean saying,
687
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:35,000
"Slaughter may be the least profound movie of the year, but it is saucy, full of action, colorfully realized, and on the whole, that's the enjoyable.
688
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:43,000
What matters is that Slotter is a moving picture, things never slacken for a moment, and this has always been enough to satisfy lots of people, including me."
689
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Kathleen Carroll of the New York Daily News provided a positive quote that served as a blurb in the newspaper ads.
690
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:57,000
She said, "Jim Brown is on the rampage in Slaughter. He storms through the film with guns blazing. He's another black superman. Slotter is aptly named."
691
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:03,000
David Elliott of the Chicago Daily News said that Brown is playing what he was meant to play and can play better than anyone else.
692
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
The black superman with a discernible link to the brother in the ghetto.
693
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000
James Bacon's Hollywood hotline syndicated column quotes Stella Stevens saying,
694
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:19,000
"I believe I am one of the three greatest actresses in film today," noting that she thought the other two were Catherine Hepburn and Ingram Bergman.
695
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Bacon wrote, "Whether it's great acting or not, Stella has a sex scene with Jim Brown in Slaughter that is really something that may get the theater raided."
696
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Stella Stevens was from Mississippi and said there was a big resentment towards her in the South because her character had sex with and fell in love with Jim Brown's character.
697
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:44,000
She said she heard that a man in a theater in Memphis stood up screamed, "You slut!" at her on the screen. Then walked out of the theater.
698
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:55,000
That's rude. Slaughter had one sequel, 1973's Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Saxon, the picture featured Jim Brown reprising the title role.
699
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Although Saxon stated in a main 1972 Hollywood reporter article that he was considering basing a television series on the character with Brown as the star, it never came to be.
700
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:17,000
In April of 1972 writer Christopher Graham sued AIP, production executive Sally Perle, Sachson, JayJen II, Hanna and Williamss, claiming breach of contract and plagiarism.
701
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Graham, who had written a screenplay entitled Slaughter at Moneyjunkiepass, claimed that AIP gave his idea to the others named in the suit and the screenplay was then prepared under the title Slotter.
702
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:37,000
On June 9, 1972, Daily Variety reported that Graham suit had been dismissed on the grounds that there was no similarity between his work in question and Slaughter.
703
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:54,000
Well, Cheryl the contemporary reviews we dug up don't seem to really praise the movie, but they didn't really think it was all that bad either. They seemed pretty middling.
704
00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:00,000
Except for the New York Times one, but he didn't like it at all. This movie is flawed in a lot of ways.
705
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000
I think it's biggest flaw is that it's really hard to be invested in the character.
706
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,000
In Slaughter?
707
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Yeah.
708
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,000
Yeah, he does play everything very close to the vest.
709
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Well, it's kind of a revenge story. He wants to get the guy who killed his parents.
710
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:21,000
But it's not like Coffy, who we're rooting for the whole time because we know why she's doing it. We meet her sister who she's avenging.
711
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Right.
712
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:27,000
And this we saw his parents glue up, but we didn't know who they were. We're not attached to them.
713
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,000
We don't really know much about them except that the reason it happened because his father was involved in some of the various things.
714
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,000
Right. So this is kind of to be expected when you do business with the mob.
715
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:43,000
Unfortunately, we don't know what this business is. We have no information on this.
716
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:48,000
It just says that there's these gangsters and they put all their information on computers.
717
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:56,000
And that's what the US Treasury wants to find out is what's on these computers.
718
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,000
So is there a big thing? Tax evasion? Is that why they're after these guys?
719
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000
I don't know. Why does all this take place in South America?
720
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000
I don't know. As we mentioned, it wasn't meant to take place in South America.
721
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,000
And there's all kinds of things you can tell we're dubbed in later.
722
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,000
Oh, right.
723
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,000
There's names.
724
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:20,000
Mario Felice's name for one. Right. Here he gives Mario Felice's name to Slaughter the first time.
725
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,000
It's obviously done in ADR twice.
726
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,000
And I have to wonder if they changed the character's name.
727
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:33,000
Did they change the plot of the character by giving in the name of Felice instead of somebody else?
728
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:39,000
Maybe they got somebody who did not do his impersonation of Marlon Brando and the Godfather.
729
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:44,000
And so they had to account for that by giving him an Italian name.
730
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:52,000
I don't know. The whole essence of this movie, if you really look into it, it's very thin.
731
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,000
There's not a lot of information and a lot of the stuff that happens.
732
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000
It's like they're shorthanding everything.
733
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:07,000
Everything happens really fast. He finds the guy. He shoots a guy and then he gets caught up by the US government and set on a revenge mission for them.
734
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,000
But they don't really want him to do the things that he wants to do.
735
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,000
Even though they know that's what he's going to do.
736
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:19,000
I don't know. It just doesn't hold together a lot wise.
737
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,000
Well, I think this was intended to be AIP's version of Shaft.
738
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,000
Yeah.
739
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
Which came out a year prior.
740
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,000
But I don't think they had the right screenplay.
741
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,000
No. The character of Slaughterr is big-headed. And pig-headed.
742
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:43,000
And as I said, he's got a huge ego and we don't really see a reason for him to think he's all that.
743
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,000
He's in the green berets.
744
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,000
Well, lots of guys were.
745
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,000
Well, maybe they all have big egos. I don't know.
746
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,000
I still found him likeable.
747
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,000
But we don't really know him.
748
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,000
So it's a very superficial liking.
749
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,000
I can see what Stella Stevens is and saw in him.
750
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,000
And he saw in her. It's just sort of physical attraction.
751
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,000
But when they play off those scenes, it comes across as they just instantly fell in love.
752
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,000
And that's not really believable.
753
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,000
And going back to compare him to Shaft.
754
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,000
Shaft is one bad mother...
755
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Show your mouth.
756
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,000
And we don't really see anything like that from slaughter.
757
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000
He's a bad guy because he acts like a bad guy.
758
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,000
Not a bad guy, but a bad guy.
759
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,000
Oh, yeah.
760
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,000
He's bad.
761
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,000
And he sees himself as that guy.
762
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,000
But I don't know that he does anything to make it real.
763
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,000
See him that way.
764
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,000
Except that he's got that attitude.
765
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,000
That's the only thing he's got going for him.
766
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,000
Right.
767
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,000
He's just an annoyance to Dominic Hoffo.
768
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,000
He's still his girl.
769
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,000
He's trying to end his operation.
770
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,000
And so he must be dealt with.
771
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,000
But there's no real personal animosity between the two of them.
772
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000
Well, except Hoffo killed his parents.
773
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,000
No, no, from Hoffo's point of view.
774
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,000
Oh, no.
775
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,000
I mean, yeah, he took his girl, but his girl wasn't really his girl.
776
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,000
It was just some sort of arrangement that they had.
777
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,000
He knew that she wasn't into him.
778
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,000
He just didn't have a choice.
779
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,000
And I think Rip Torn was terrible in this.
780
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,000
I loved him and the Larry Sanders show.
781
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,000
And so I was kind of excited that I get to see him in an early role here.
782
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,000
But number one, he looked awful.
783
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,000
He looked like he was ill.
784
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,000
His hair was a mess.
785
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,000
His skin was clammy.
786
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,000
His terrible teeth.
787
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,000
And he's always smiling.
788
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,000
This goblin smile at everyone.
789
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000
And it's just the luck.
790
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:45,000
And as an actor here, he's just over the top evil.
791
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,000
He doesn't have any kind of nuance to him at all.
792
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000
He's just really bad.
793
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:55,000
I think that having more of a story in place.
794
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:00,000
Knowing what these villains of the movie are really up to, it's basically implied.
795
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,000
And we can, you know, it's something of the computers.
796
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000
And I guess that's really cool for 1972.
797
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,000
It's high tech.
798
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,000
But without any details, it's probably because the writers really had no idea.
799
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,000
Because computers were just these mysterious things that took up a room
800
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000
and looked like real to real tape decks.
801
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,000
Right.
802
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:24,000
So obviously they're trying to make this fancier than it really is without having any kind of back.
803
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:29,000
And having any kind of background knowledge that would make it make sense to
804
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000
even an audience then let alone now.
805
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:37,000
And for the film itself, you brought this up once and there are several scenes
806
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,000
where they just employ a fish islands for no real reason.
807
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,000
No, it's very distracting.
808
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,000
It takes you out of the movie when it comes up.
809
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:51,000
It seems to me like whenever there's a big fight scene or a kill scene or something.
810
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:58,000
The first time we see it is when Harry is in Stodder's Hotel room and Stodder comes in.
811
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,000
And he pushes him into this fragile little lattice wall.
812
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,000
And we see the wall come apart and Harry fall down.
813
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,000
In slow motion.
814
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000
In slow motion with the fish islands.
815
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,000
Yeah.
816
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,000
It's just so like we heard and some of the other camera work even without the fish islands
817
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,000
was very strange to me.
818
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:22,000
Like extreme closeups when it should have been like a two shot or a more of an establishing shot.
819
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:28,000
When Anne goes to Mario's the first time and he's eating dinner, it's a shot from above.
820
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,000
And it's handheld.
821
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,000
And so it's a little shaky and it's not even centered.
822
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,000
It looks really weird.
823
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,000
And then it goes to a fish eye from there I think when she comes in.
824
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,000
Does it?
825
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Maybe not.
826
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:44,000
I thought there was something else weird about that scene before she comes in and they start talking.
827
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,000
It looks like surveillance camera video from the angle.
828
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:56,000
And there's a lot of balcony scenes too where Dominic is standing on a balcony shooting down at somebody.
829
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:01,000
In a handball court in Mario's office, there's a balcony.
830
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,000
There's balconies everywhere.
831
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,000
The hotel has a bunch of balcony.
832
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,000
Yeah, you see that balcony looking down at his girlfriend.
833
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,000
It's covering all over slaughter.
834
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,000
It was actually kind of a cool shot.
835
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,000
But I don't know.
836
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,000
There's just so many flaws to this movie.
837
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,000
And the bad thing is I really wanted to like it.
838
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,000
Another flaw is the soundtrack for the movie.
839
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,000
Oh, definitely.
840
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,000
It's bad.
841
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,000
And we've seen other black exploitation movies.
842
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,000
And the music is usually the best part.
843
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:36,000
And here it was just like schmaltzied light FM stuff.
844
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,000
Lounge music.
845
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,000
I don't know if I would call this a black exploitation movie.
846
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,000
No, but it has been called a black exploitation movie.
847
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,000
It's considered to be amongst AIP's blaxploitation movie.
848
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,000
There's really only one black character in it.
849
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,000
Well, there's two.
850
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Oh, yeah.
851
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,000
My Kim Walker is as well.
852
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,000
Right.
853
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,000
But it's those two against everybody else.
854
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,000
But slaughter is a star.
855
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,000
And it is an action movie.
856
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,000
So you could kind of make a case that it is black exploitation.
857
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,000
But you can definitely make a case that there should have been much better music.
858
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,000
The theme song by Billy Preston is good.
859
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,000
But why don't they let him do some more songs for the movie?
860
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,000
Or get somebody.
861
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,000
Yeah, maybe money.
862
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,000
But why don't they get somebody else?
863
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:27,000
What I loved about Blackula is that they had the Hughes Corporation as the house band.
864
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,000
And that was awesome.
865
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,000
They let him perform.
866
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000
It wasn't just background music.
867
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,000
I love Blackula.
868
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,000
And I love the music in it.
869
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:41,000
And not having that here made it very hard to love anything about this movie.
870
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Let's talk a little about Kim Walker's character.
871
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,000
She first shows up and plays off as being a reporter.
872
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:53,600
And then she turns up in his bathroom naked pretending she wants to seduce him.
873
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:59,120
But her real goal is just to try to get him on board on this case because he winds up on
874
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,000
the case after he shoots the wrong guy.
875
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,000
She's going to be like, I guess, was an undercover agent.
876
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,000
Yeah, she didn't need to recruit him.
877
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,000
So maybe before he shot granality.
878
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,000
But once that was done, they just needed price to arrest him.
879
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:16,000
The whole setup doesn't make much sense at all.
880
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,000
No, and she's essentially his babysitter, but he doesn't listen to anybody.
881
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,000
So she's kind of pointless.
882
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:29,000
Unfortunately, because this movie, you know, as all movies could use women characters who actually do stuff.
883
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,000
I did like Stella Stevens, though.
884
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:38,000
Even though I didn't believe in what she was trying to sell, she seemed like an interesting
885
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,000
character and that they gave her a little bit more to work with.
886
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:48,000
Although I would like to know how you get gifted to a person in 1972.
887
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,000
Yeah, they didn't go into much detail there, did they?
888
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,000
They didn't go into much detail ever.
889
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:57,000
You mentioned that this was almost turned into a television series.
890
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,000
And I think it would have played better as a TV series.
891
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:04,000
I think the character would have worked better in one hour increments that are trying to carry a whole film.
892
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,000
Right.
893
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,000
You're right.
894
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,000
It would have.
895
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000
And they actually made a TV series of shaft around the same time.
896
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000
I think it was 1973 that was on.
897
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000
But it only lasted seven episodes.
898
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,000
So I'm sure slaughter wouldn't have done that well in this TV series.
899
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,000
But I think it would have played better as a TV series.
900
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Yeah, we thought the same thing about Friday Foster with Pam Greer.
901
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,000
That was supposed to be a TV series, too.
902
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,000
And that could have been really fun.
903
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,000
Foxy Brown might be a TV series.
904
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,000
Well, that would be very soon.
905
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,000
We had the pleasure of meeting Pam Greer a few weeks ago.
906
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:40,000
And she mentioned that something is in the works for Foxy Brown and Netflix.
907
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,000
She was kind of vague though.
908
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,000
She teased us, but she didn't tell us much more than that.
909
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,000
However, that would be amazing.
910
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,000
I'll watch it.
911
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000
I normally love it when things explode in movies.
912
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,000
But this film took it a little too far.
913
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:59,000
And like every time something bumps into something else, it erupts and flames.
914
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:05,000
The scene in the alley where the garbage can't just goes nuclear for no reason.
915
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,000
It gets bumped by a car and I was suddenly.
916
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,000
And inferno, it's ridiculous.
917
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:17,000
And the small plane at the beginning of the film that tries to take off and slaughter bumps the wing in it.
918
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,000
It catches on fire.
919
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,000
Emolates.
920
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:28,000
Yeah, the only wheel satisfying one was the end shot where slaughter shoots the tank of the car and pop up.
921
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000
Go up in flames.
922
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,000
It was super satisfying because that was also the end of the movie.
923
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,000
So Cheryl, do you think we discussed the film enough that you're ready to give it a rating?
924
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,000
Using our AIP scale where A is awesome?
925
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000
I is intermediate and P is pathetic?
926
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,000
I believe so.
927
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:47,000
I'd first like to say that I really like Jim Brown as an actor.
928
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,000
And I think that the material wasn't here for him.
929
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,000
He did as well as he could with what he had.
930
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,000
And I'm looking forward to seeing slaughters being rip off because I've heard that's better.
931
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:04,000
And maybe we'll see him with a better script and be able to enjoy his character more.
932
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,000
I really wanted to like the movie.
933
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,000
I really wanted to enjoy him in it.
934
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,000
I was looking forward to this one.
935
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,000
And I ended up kind of disappointed.
936
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:21,000
I don't think it was as bad the second time around as I did the first time around where it just seemed like a bunch of nonsense.
937
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Shot badly and scored awfully.
938
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:28,000
The second time around it kind of got into the movie a little bit more.
939
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:35,000
And I did think that had they set it up better, the relationship between Anne and slaughter could have been really interesting.
940
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:40,000
Unfortunately, they forced it on us unrealistically.
941
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:45,000
I hesitate giving this the grade that I think it deserves though.
942
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:51,000
Because I don't even have a reason why I think it deserves a P or pathetic.
943
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,000
I want to give it an I and say that it's not that bad.
944
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:01,000
But then when we were talking about it, we didn't really have a lot of positive things to say about it.
945
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:06,000
And so I'm afraid I have to give it that P or pathetic.
946
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:15,000
Maybe it's on the higher side ever repronged scale, but it's not great.
947
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,000
What do you think?
948
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,000
I felt a little differently actually.
949
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:20,000
You did?
950
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:25,000
I agree with a lot of what you said, but the second pass for me was the harder of the two.
951
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,000
Oh.
952
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:32,000
I think this movie is more enjoyable if you just watch it and go along for the ride and don't think too much on it.
953
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:37,000
When we're taking this note to the extent that we do, we pretty much tearing the movie apart.
954
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:41,000
So we have to look a lot closer than anybody should look at this film.
955
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,000
That's just because we want to be funny.
956
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,000
But I think if you're just watching the movie and you don't think you can enjoy it.
957
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,000
Is it great movie?
958
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,000
Absolutely not.
959
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,000
It's pretty awful.
960
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:57,000
But again, if you don't think about it, it might be at least okay.
961
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,000
So based on that, I'm going to give it an I.
962
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,000
I think it's more deserving.
963
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,000
Even if the movie is a huge disappointment.
964
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,000
Well, yeah.
965
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,000
I mean, I wanted to give it an I.
966
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,000
I thought you hated it more than I did, honestly.
967
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,000
I'm surprised.
968
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000
It's hard to give it an I so I can definitely see where you're coming from.
969
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:17,000
Yeah.
970
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,000
I don't know.
971
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:23,000
I'm always sad when a movie is much worse than I anticipated.
972
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,000
Especially when I wanted to like it.
973
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:32,000
I have liked other blaxploitation films that we've watched.
974
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,000
You know, everything with Pam Grier is just so good.
975
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:43,000
And then having this movie, which came first, it didn't really set a standard.
976
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,000
This movie should have set a higher bar.
977
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:50,000
And instead, it's a pretty low bar that subsequent movies easily got over.
978
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:54,000
And it's disappointing because it wouldn't have been that hard to make this better.
979
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000
No, not at all.
980
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Just build up.
981
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Slotter's character a little bit less.
982
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,000
Know a little more about him.
983
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,000
Making me a lot cooler to everybody else instead of just himself.
984
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:05,000
That's true.
985
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,000
He toasted to his own health.
986
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,000
Yeah, we could have known more about him.
987
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:17,000
It's always a cheap cop out when somebody loses a loved one and that starts their hero journey.
988
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,000
And the fact that his dad was in the mob or whatever.
989
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,000
Doesn't make us that sympathetic.
990
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:25,000
And he was a green beret.
991
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,000
Well, what does that mean to him?
992
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,000
How did that affect him?
993
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,000
It just many knows how to shoot basically.
994
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,000
I think Jim Brown is capable of so much more.
995
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,000
But they gave him nothing.
996
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,000
Yeah, they really didn't.
997
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,000
This whip was not good.
998
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:45,000
No, and then the other actors, there weren't a lot of great actors in this.
999
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,000
The guy you played, Mario Felice.
1000
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,000
This was his only role, wasn't it?
1001
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,000
Yeah, this was his only role.
1002
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:56,000
And I think he just got hired because he could do the accent.
1003
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,000
That's right. Did the accent that well, but.
1004
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,000
Well, they thought he could maybe.
1005
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:08,000
But yeah, he was trying to channel the Godfather and did a terrible rendition of it.
1006
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,000
By a Ronald McDonald.
1007
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,000
That curly wig.
1008
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,000
His curly hair.
1009
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,000
That's all I could think about what I was looking at.
1010
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,000
And a lovely perm.
1011
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,000
You are a fan of slaughter and you want to tell us how wrong we are.
1012
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:28,000
Way to do that is via our website, aippod.com, where we have a contact page.
1013
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:33,000
And there we also have a lot of extras from the movie that we can't talk about because they're visual.
1014
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,000
Trailers, posters, lobby cards, etc.
1015
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,000
So make sure you go there and check those out.
1016
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,000
AIPPOD.com.
1017
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:47,000
So with that, we'll end another episode of the American International Podcast.
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This is Jeff Markin.
1019
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And this is Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And we'll meet you at the drive-in.
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The American International Podcast is produced and edited by Jeff Markin.
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A man whose mind is distorted by hatred.
1025
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And Cheryl Lightfoot.
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A girl hungry for too many things.
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