i must give credit to billy dee for try to pull this off . know this be a blaxploitation film and i start my dvd with a certain expectation . i know it would be low budget . the act sub par . but hop for a few gem to be sprinkle throughout . if there be any diamond or gem sprinkle within this film and they be successfully bury under ton and ton of coal . or perhaps overact . a an actor and filmmaker and i cringe often when potential poignant moment be ruin with atrocious performance . yet and i must admit and i could not look away . i do not know if this be like a car wreck you can not turn your eye from and or some mysterious power in the film that keep me there . this film be a good case for an excellent story that be tell wrong . if walter kronkite be to tell the aristocrat joke and it would be a total flop and although the joke itself be hilarious . let dave chappelle tell it and and we be all roll on the floor laughing . this film need a chapelle . now and with that say and if you have the opportunity to purchase this film for the dollar that i do and do it . it be well worth the money . perhaps i will take another dollar and purchase the right to this film and and remake it . who know . it might not be any good and but it surely can not be any bad .