Bucktown

Bucktown (1975)

  • 53% of users liked it
    (937 ratings)

A man moves to the small and racially divided town where his bar-owning brother was murdered after he refused to pay crooked white cops for "protection." When he is threatened himself, he calls in some hefty men to help him, but they instead decide to take over the town. In order to oust… More

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Genres
Classics, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1975 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Jon Lap, Apollo Guide

    What began as a genre of films exploiting the black audience by taking their dollars to satisfy a need to see themselves succeed, wore itself thin by developing into a transparent set of conventions.

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  • Daniel H


    A standout but little-known gem of the blaxploitation genre. It contains all the Blaxploitation ingredients: (Crooked cops, a black gang, jive-talking, dashes of pimping, drugs, kung-fu and sex.) But where most Blaxploitation films combine these to corny yet endearing effect, Bucktown… More

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