Solomon King

Solomon King (1974)

His friends call him 'King'—his enemies call him tough!!!

CIA trained detective Solomon King has to use all of his dirty tricks and experiences to get revenge on the person responsible for the murder of his girlfriend. A trail leads him to a desert in the Middle East.

Date of release
1974-09-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Action
Director
Sal Watts, Jack Bomay

Casting

Interesting facts

Solomon King is a 1974 independent blaxploitation film produced, written, co-directed, and starring Sal Watts, and featuring "Little Jamie" Watts, Claudia Russo, Felice Kinchelow, and Samaki Bennett, with baseball player Tito Fuentes as "Special Guest Star". The film was co-directed by Jack Bomay.

Production

Sal Watts was a businessman in Oakland, California who raised $140,000 from within the African American community to make this film in response to "black complaints about 'blaxploitation movies'". The working title was "Black Agent Lucky King". Production for the film took place from late 1973 to early 1974, with location shooting taking place in Oakland and around the San Francisco Bay area.

The men's clothing for the film came from Watts' chain of clothing stores.

When the film premiered in Oakland, it ran two hours. Watts then trimmed it to 88 minutes.

As of the 2020s, the original negative and all other printing elements of the film were believed to have been lost. The UCLA Film and Television Archive owned a complete 35mm Eastman Kodak print, which was badly faded to pink and was damaged, and Watts' widow, Belinda Burton-Watts, had a 35mm sound track negative.

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