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Disco Godfather

Disco Godfather (1979)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (2,293 ratings)

J. Robert Wagoner directs the 1979 blaxploitation-martial arts classic Disco Godfather. Rudy Ray Moore stars as Tucker Williams, an ex-cop and resident DJ at the nightclub Blueberry Hill Disco. When his nephew Bucky (Julius J. Carry III) gets mixed up with drugs, Tucker is motivated to start some… More

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Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy, Cult Movies
In Theaters
Aug 1, 1979 Wide
On DVD
Jul 27, 1999
Transvue Pictures Corp.

Critic Reviews

  • Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

    Rudy Ray Moore is a comic genius.

  • Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

    Putting the words 'disco' and 'godfather' in a title is already inviting trouble, but in execution the makers of this urban 'drama' not only embrace it, they downright make love to it.

  • Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

    Peerless camp blaxploitation.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Daniel H


    Watchable for some occasionally hilarious one-liners, and to see the honest "stop doing drugs" message crash and burn along with horrible acting, a transparent plot, painfully bad "drug sequences", disco-dance sequences, laughable kung-fu "action"… More

  • The Movie W


    By the late seventies Blaxploitation was all but dead but trust Moore to keep the torch burning. This movie is hilarious, especially when it tries to hammer home it's "drugs are bad" message. Fans of disco really need to see this as it's a fantastic time capsule of… More

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