Carol Speed, Don Gordon, George Murdock
The Mack, a 1973 pimping epic, is at once a laughable, schlock classic and a harbinger of more serious black-themed films to come. Starring the now-forgotten Max Julien as Goldie, the preening ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 3, 2002
Stats: 276 reviews
This movie is a classic of blaxploitation movies. It's also a must see for crime movies fans because it's theme is not so frequent in a crime movies and I can't understand why because pimping is one of the most popular criminal activities. I've seen some other films about pimps b...( read more)
The Mack features all of the elements that exploitation fans crave. The cops in this film are so racist, they may as well have been wearing white hoods. Keeping with a common theme in blaxploitation flicks, all white men in this film are evil, whereas white hookers are a valued...( read more)
Returning from prison to the streets, Goldie decides to create a pimping empire, fighting racist cops, a drug dealing kingpin, rival pimps and his socially conscious brother along the way. Despite the injection of fresh blaxploitation themes into a tired rise and fall of a crime...( read more)
Real life gangsters/pimps were used in the film and Pryor was out of his skull with coke. The result a super pimped up Blaxploitation title.
"You gonna have a bank roll so big, when you walk down the street, it gonna look like your pockets got the mumps"
Goldy finishes his five year stretch, and decides to make good as a pimp through the well-trod path of rise, revenge and redemption. Never mind the dubious sexu...( read more)
If you are into that 70's vibe can you dig it mann vibe with the afros, bell bottoms then you will love this movie.
I did not expect it to be as good as it was! They should have came out with a sequel! Richard Pryor was crazy!
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