The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)
Git Back JACK--Give him no JIVE...He is the BAAAD'EST Cat in '75
Sunset Boulevard is a lucrative place to work for the Black Baron, a pimp with a distinctive red and yellow Rolls Royce and plenty of girls on his books. He don't take no mess from his girls, his madam or his competitors and viciously defends his patch. First, he clobbers the Mob who attempt to move in on his patch. Second, he tracks down one of his girls who runs off with a suitcase full of his cash. Third, he disposes of two policemen. But by now he knows his pimping days are numbered, so after a final explosive gun battle he switches to being his alter ego, mild-mannered businessman Ron who lives out in the leafy suburbs with an unsuspecting wife and family.
- Date of release
- 1975-05-01
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Director
- Matt Cimber
Casting
- John Daniels — The Baron
- Richard Kennedy — Dempsey
- Meri McDonald — Sugar
- Marilyn Joi — Clarisse
- Tallie Cochrane — Midge
- George Buck Flower — Gordon
- Patrick Wright — Big Floyd
- Mikel Angel — Vincent Di Nunzio
- Brenda Fogarty — Hooker on Couch (uncredited)
- Marva Farmer — Bella
Interesting facts
The Candy Tangerine Man is a 1975 American action-adventure blaxploitation film starring John Daniels, Eli Haines and Tom Hankason. Distributed by Moonstone Entertainment, it follows the story of Ron Lewis, the powerful "Black Baron", both a pimp and a doting father. The film was directed and produced by Matt Cimber and written by Mikel Angel under the pseudonym of George Theakos.
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