Hangup (1974)
- Directed by
- Henry Hathaway
- Genre
- action film, blaxploitation film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A black policeman hunts down the man who got his girlfriend addicted to heroin. The movie is a vigilante story set in a troubled part of the city.
fast-pacedgrittyvengefullow-budgetflashyurbandatedexploitative
What happens
Hangup, also called Hang Up and later released under the name Super Dude, is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Marki Bey. This was the last film directed by Hathaway. The film falls in the blaxploitation subgenre of "vigilante group cleans up ghetto streets". The film follows a black policeman seeking revenge on the man who got his girlfriend addicted to heroin. The film was distributed by American International Pictures, one of the many films it targeted to the new youth market. Josiah Howard states that the marketing "almost makes it look like a spoof of the genre." Howard described the film as "low budget and flashy, but fast-moving and consistently entertaining." Leonard Maltin wrote "Hathaway has done many fine films, but this, his last, isn't one." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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