Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Soul of Nigger Charley (1973)

Paramount Pictures
Directed by Larry G. Spangler
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
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Fred Williamson and his sidekick D'Urville Martin, the only survivors from the first film, are back to free more slaves. This time they take along a kid who survives a massacre, lady friend Denise Nicholas and whole lot of Mexicans. They rob a train full of gold and plan to use it to buy back the slaves. Slightly better than the first film, this one has more stylish photography of the desert landscape, a more complex plot and better defined characters. However, it's still overlong, due mostly to the uninteresting romance between Williamson and Nicholas, and suffers from a contrived downbeat ending.

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