Cleopatra Jones (1973) on Netflix
PG19731h 29mActionCrimeThriller
Cleopatra Jones is a United States special agent whose modeling work abroad covers her real job. When she has a poppy field in Turkey destroyed, the drug lord Mommy promises revenge.
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- IMDb5.9/103,805 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Cleopatra Jones is a special agent for the United States government, and her modeling jobs in other countries cover the work she really does. In Turkey she has a poppy field that belongs to Mommy burned, and Mommy, a drug lord who keeps an all-male crew and a group of young women around her, is enraged. Mommy has allies among the police, and through them she causes trouble for Cleo's friends. Cleo's lover, Reuben Masters, runs B&S House, a home for recovering addicts.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cleopatra Jones (1973)
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- Max Julien originally wrote the part of Jones for his then-girlfriend Vonetta McGee, but the part was eventually given to Dobson, a fashion model whose height inspired the film's tag line: "6 feet 2 inches of dynamite."
- Dobson herself refused to do nude scenes, striving to separate herself from the hypersexuality of many other black heroines of the time, and held that "sex is more interesting when you don't show everything at once."
- Although Cleopatra Jones contains themes relating specifically to the Black Power and feminist movements, it appealed to the general public and is said to be the "first blaxploitation film to use martial arts as part of its promotion."
