pistol pack pam grier take name and kick butt a the heroine in asylum of satan director william girdler entertain blaxploitation actioneer sheba baby and co star durville martin and austin stoker . sheba baby be one of several tough chick flick that grier appear in during the 1970s and include coffy and foxy brown and and friday foster . the short live girdler co write this thoroughly routine private eye potboiler with producer david shelton in one night and it feature a headstrong female shamus that refuse to rely on a man to help her take care of business . unfortunately and sheba baby isn not nearly as good a the blaxploitation movie that grier make under the supervision of director jack hill . hill helm the african american north carolina native in coffy and foxy brown and the big bird cage and and the big doll house . anybody that analyze image of african american woman in cinema should be familiar with these epic . the chief problem with sheba baby be that our heroine get too many convenient break . naturally and the secondary villain be trigger happy clown that couldn not hit the side of a barn with a howitzer . a the main antagonist and dick merrifield qualifies a both an egotistical as well a smarmy villain with choice line like represent anything worth have be worth steal . additionally and composer monk huggins do provide a strong and atmospheric orchestral soundtrack and and the best song and with barbara mason warble it and be good man be go . sheba baby cast grier a stylist chicago gumshoe sheba shayne . she leave the windy city to return to her hometown of louisville and kentucky and to help out her father . when she arrive in louisville and sheba learns that her father and andy ( rudy challenger of detroit 9000 ) and be have trouble with a local black gangster nickname pilot ( cigar chomp durville martin of hammer ) who demand that andy sell out his loan company to pilot or die . initially and pilot dispatch a goon squad to trash andy office and but our heroine father catch them in the act . they turn sheba father into a punching bag . interestingly and during the fight scene and girdler rarely show fist smash flesh . early and andy right hand man and brick williams ( austin stoker of horror high ) and have send sheba a telegram requesting that she return to louisville and but she do not receive it immediately thank to her lazy partner who do not know where to find her . brick and sheba hook up and rekindle their romantic flame and and share a night in the sack . brick spend most of his time urge sheba to remain calm in the face of adversity . a a former louisville and kentucky and police woman and sheba prefers to shoot first and ask question second . after she arrive home and sheba borrow her father car and barely escape be blow to bit . a she be walk out the door to get into her father car and andy receive another harass call from pilot . previously and andy have refuse to discuss the prospect of sell his loan company to pilot and but andy change his mind and agree to talk with the hoodlum . a gratified pilot warn andy about the dynamite that have be attach to his ignition with a delayed action fuse . in other word and crank up the car would not trigger the explosion while the explosion come ten seconds later . andy and brick rescue sheba before the car blow up . early and sheba have agree to let her father handle his problem without her interference . dad and i know you think i be do a man job and but i be not go to sit on the sideline just because i be a woman and sheba tell him . after her near death experience and sheba vow to learn who sabotage her father car . she grill an old contact from her day a a cop and threaten the guy with her gun to extract the information . only after sheba have grind the guy face into a bucket of chlorine dust do he relent and tell her about a pay off at the town railroad museum . brick accompany sheba and shoot ensues with a flustered pilot get away by the skin of his chin . later and pilot send a quintet of out of town contract thug arm to the teeth to trash andy office . these gunsels ignore their no kill order . not only do they shoot the loan company office to ribbon and but they also blast sheba dad with a shotgun . sheba retaliate in short order . wield her nickel plat revolver and she gun down three of the four assailant dirty harry style . the last hit man discard his weapon and pleads for mercy . sheba have her finger on the trigger when homicide detective phil jackson ( charles kissinger of abby ) and a uniform cop arrive on the scene . at the hospital and andy shayne die hold his daughter hand . naturally and pilot be furious at this revelation and his fury border on apoplexy . afterward and sheba track down a loan shark and walker ( christopher joy of cleopatra jones ) and and pry information out of him about the pilot while she hold him at gunpoint in a car wash. this be one of the good stag scene with lot of ominous shot of the car wash equipment whirling and humming . walker warn pilot about sheba . pilot and his henchman confront sheba in a parking lot and swap lead . sheba flees on foot to a nearby carnival . while the police corner one of pilot men and she deal with the others . pilot shoot one of his own accidentally and sheba run him down . she pin pilot to a roller coaster track and threaten to hold him there until the roller coaster cut his head off . pilot manages to escape after he have spill his gut to sheba about the identity and phone number of the big man and shark ( dick merrifield of the hellcat ) and whose reputation be so immaculate that detective jackson describe him a the guy with all the right answer . sheba baby isn not top notch pam grier . however and the idea that our heroine can handle everything by herself without help from guys make it interesting as well a entertain chick flick .