Sheba, Baby
Sheba, Baby
PG | 26 March 1975 (USA)
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Sheba, a Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

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Uriah43

"Andy Shayne" (Rudy Challenger) owns a small loan company in Louisville, Kentucky. When he refuses to sell it to some local gangsters he is beaten up. This causes his daughter, "Sheba" to temporarily leave her private investigation office in Chicago to be with him. Things escalate and Sheba decides to get directly involved and find those responsible. So much for the plot. As far as everything else was concerned this film had its good points and its bad points. Overall the acting wasn't that good. But I liked Pam Grier and Austin Stoker (as "Brick Williams"). I also got a kick out of the performance of Christopher Joy (as "Walker"). Likewise, I thought the choice of Louisville was a refreshing change from the usual film locations of New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. On the other hand, both the fight scenes and the dialogue left much to be desired and I believe it lowers the overall effect. The bottom line is that both "Coffy" and "Foxy Brown" were better and I have rated this film accordingly. Barely average.

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preppy-3

Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier) returns to her hometown to help her father fight mobsters. Her father is killed by them and Sheba sets out to avenge him.Grier had two other similar movies like this--"Foxy Brown" and "Coffy". They were hilariously over the top, VERY R rated and full of nudity and extreme violence. This is rated PG and far too tame. Yeah, there's action but it's all kept down to a PG level. The script is terrible which doesn't help matters. The other two had bad scripts too but threw in enough extreme violence to keep you interested. Here it's just boring. The plotting is by the numbers and the movie seems to drag. Grier is wonderful (as always) but she can't save such a terrible movie. For Pam Grier completists only.

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DJ Inferno

In comparison to classics like "Foxy Brown" or "Coffy" this one obviously looses, but the film itself is not that bad as some people claim! Okay, it maybe looks more like the episode of a 1970s TV serial than a movie for the big screen, but it has got some decent entertainment values, although the above mentioned films were more violent and sexy. Once more Pam Grier plays a revenging lady which does away with some corrupt guys who killed her father. This amazing main actress it definitely the coolest Afro American actress on our planet and it´s a shame that she´s nowadays wasted in quite meaningless stuff like John Carpenter´s "Ghosts of Mars"! Another memorable part is given by Austin Stroker, a forgotten 1970s actor, who was great in films like "Assault on Precinct 13" (Made in the times when Carpenter still shot good movies...) or "Battle for the Planet of the Apes". Better watch "Foxy Brown" or "Coffy" first to see some real Pam Grier Blaxploitation classics, but you can easily check out "Sheba, Baby" without that feeling to have your time wasted!

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gridoon

Pam Grier is as lean, cool and tough as ever in this film (in fact, she's arguably tougher here than in "Foxy Brown"), but the plot is overly familiar ("Return of the Dragon", anyone?) and the flick is poorly edited in just about all the crucial spots (fight and action sequences). This one is mostly for Grier fans, who'll have an OK time. The "PG" rating is questionable, considering a few quite graphic and bloody scenes. (**)

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