-Jim Kelly did end up starring in his own film, "Black Belt Jones", before "Bolt" was released, so he's really the one who first mashed up blaxploitation with martial arts.
-Soon afterwards, the mashup came to television animation via Hanna-Barbera's popular "Hong Kong Phooey" series, featuring an overconfident blaxploitation style hero whose "expertise" as martial arts was actually...limited.
-Bernard Schwartz was the real name of noted Hollywood star Tony Curtis. Was he perhaps the producer of this movie incognito?
I'll be covering Black Belt Jones soon. It seems that it was released in 1974, but it's hard to nail down specific release dates on a lot of these movies, so it's possible that it came out first.
According to IMDB, this is a different Bernard Schwartz who produced a number of notable movies, including Coal Miner's Daughter. But who knows, perhaps Tony Curtis had a secret second career.
-Jim Kelly did end up starring in his own film, "Black Belt Jones", before "Bolt" was released, so he's really the one who first mashed up blaxploitation with martial arts.
-Soon afterwards, the mashup came to television animation via Hanna-Barbera's popular "Hong Kong Phooey" series, featuring an overconfident blaxploitation style hero whose "expertise" as martial arts was actually...limited.
-Bernard Schwartz was the real name of noted Hollywood star Tony Curtis. Was he perhaps the producer of this movie incognito?
I'll be covering Black Belt Jones soon. It seems that it was released in 1974, but it's hard to nail down specific release dates on a lot of these movies, so it's possible that it came out first.
According to IMDB, this is a different Bernard Schwartz who produced a number of notable movies, including Coal Miner's Daughter. But who knows, perhaps Tony Curtis had a secret second career.