Black Shampoo

Black Shampoo (1976)

He's bad…he's mean…he's a lovin' machine!

A promiscuous Black hairstylist has sex with his white female clientele, but when he begins a relationship with his Black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.

Date of release
1976-03-05
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director
Greydon Clark

Casting

Interesting facts

Black Shampoo is an American exploitation film directed by Greydon Clark. Released in 1976, the comedy film is considered an example of the blaxploitation and sexploitation subgenres of exploitation film. Produced on a budget of $50,000, the film stars John Daniels as Jonathan Knight, an African American businessman and hairdresser who frequently has sex with his predominantly white female clients, and Tanya Boyd as Brenda, Jonathan's secretary and girlfriend, who was previously in a relationship with a white mob boss, who, out of jealousy towards his ex's new lover, begins to regularly send goons to trash Jonathan's hair salon. The violence escalates as the film progresses.

Development

Director Greydon Clark had previously explored racial themes in his film The Bad Bunch (1973), which had also been released under the title Nigger Lover, and would subsequently explore these themes again in his later film Skinheads (1989).

For the casting of Jonathan, Clark reached out to actor John Daniels, on the basis of Daniels' performance in the film The Candy Tangerine Man (1975). Actress Tanya Boyd was cast from an audition for the part of Brenda that impressed Clark. The film entered into production on a budget of $50,000. Because it was produced outside of the Screen Actors Guild, many cast members used pseudonyms.

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