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New York City | Blaxploitation Cinema
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National Film Preservation Board | 2022
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | 1973 | Curtis
Budget 500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 30,000,000 USD
The script was only 45 pages long, which explains the many shots of people walking and driving.
This is one of a few films with a soundtrack that grossed more than the film itself.
Priest's Cadillac Eldorado was owned by K.C., a real-life pimp who appears in the nightclub scene. He got a part in the movie in exchange for use of his car.
Ron O'Neal didn't like the cocaine montage. In an E! True Hollywood Story (1996) interview, he said it so glorified drug use that it was a "commercial for cocaine."
At the film's 40th-anniversary screening, held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY, K.C. revealed that his customized Cadillac was eventually seized by the IRS.
"Youngblood Priest: I'm gettin' out, Eddie. Eddie: Gettin' outta what? Youngblood Priest: The cocaine business. Eddie: Oh, sweet. Sh*t. Say, those junkies must have knocked a hole in your head. You're gonna give all this up? 8-Track Stereo, color T.V. in every room, and can snort a half a piece of dope everyday? That's the American Dream, nigga! Well, ain't it? Ain't it?"
"Georgia: Look maybe you should get out now now before something really bad happens. I could be happy with a plain life, a poor one if only you were. Youngblood Priest: Look what would I do? With my record I can't even work civil service or join the damn army. If I quit now, then I took all this chance for nothing and I go back to being nothing. Working some jive job for chump change day after day. Well if that's all I'm supposed to do then they gonna have to kill me 'cause that ain't enough."
