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- While the hilarious karate and hallucinations that close the film are worth the wait, they don't justify the gleeful submission to the era's fads or the preachy, anti-drug crusade, both of which make Disco Godfather too inhibited for its own good.
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A nightclub owner (Rudy Ray Moore) declares war on drug dealers after his nephew has a bad trip on angel dust.
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Disco Godfather Reviews. While the hilarious karate and...
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A Los Angeles ex-policewoman (Cynthia Rothrock) protects a...
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Disco Godfather: Directed by J. Robert Wagoner. With Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones. Rudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- J. Robert Wagoner
- 1979-09
- The Apple
- Can't Stop The Music
- That's The Way of The World
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- The Secret Disco Revolution
- Roll Bounce
- Studio 54
- Thank God It's Friday
- Saturday Night Fever
A dystopian musical set in 1994, an innocent couple tries to break into the music industry only to be met with the dark side of the business in The Apple. Despite taking place in the future (by 1980 standards), the movie embodies disco's aesthetic and over-the-top decadence. The costumes are glittery and styled after the popular disco fashions of t...
In this fictional retelling of the formation of the Village People, model Samantha tries to help her friend get a record deal by recruiting a policeman, a cowboy, a construction worker, a soldier, an American Indian, and a biker to form a proper group. RELATED: 10 Best Rock Musician Appearances In Movies The Village People was a disco hit-making ma...
Named after the album of the same name by the genre-spanning band, Earth, Wind, and Fire, That's the Way of the World follows a successful music producer (the talented Harvey Keitel) who is torn between business-minded record executives and his own standards when looking for the next big music sensation. Earth, Wind, and Fire play the band that Kei...
A Rudy Ray Moore film, one of the behemoths of the Blaxploitation genre, Disco Godfatherfollows an ex-cop tasked with stopping an angel dust producer. The film's fashions are next-level disco; the polyester budget of this movie must have been astronomical. The film also makes full use of the popularity of discos at the time, centering the film's pl...
Sometimes labeled one of the worst movies of all time, this oft-maligned cult classic provides a snapshot of the disco craze. In Xanadu, an unsuccessful painter meets his muse in a Greek goddess that suggests to him that his destiny is to open a disco club called Xanadu. Related: 10 Movies That Defined '70s Cinema The styling of the movie, as well ...
A documentary that looks at disco music and its effects through a social and political lens,The Secret Disco Revolutioninterviews many musicians of the disco environment in addition to academics' opinions on the genre. The film posits that disco was a way of catalyzing advances for gender, racial, and LGBTQ equality in the late 70s. Interviewing di...
Roll Bounce captures a subsect of disco culture: roller disco. When their neighborhood roller rink closes, a grieving teen and his friends must skate at the more upscale rink where they sign up for a skating contest to prove themselves to their new rink, in 1978 Chicago, in Roll Bounce. RELATED:The 10 Best Casts From '70s Movies The film's soundtra...
A documentary on the famed nightclub where disco reigned king and everyone from Andy Warhol to Dolly Parton to Grace Jones partied. The hotspot of New York City for the disco years of the late 70s, Studio 54provides an inside look into the glitz and the glamour of the club. The film covers the history of Studio 54 through the eyes of co-owner Ian S...
In a movie that is inarguably a time capsule of the 70s, Thank God It's Fridayfollows a Friday night at The Zoo, a disco club in Los Angeles, where the staff and clients meet to dance their cares away. The movie shares a look at the club scene at the height of disco notoriety and fame. There are disco queens who dub the band Kiss as "kid stuff" whi...
The seminal film on disco culture, Saturday Night Feveris about Tony's escape from his bleak future prospects and dysfunctional family by spending his nights in the disco. As a disco dancing competition looms overhead, Tony sees a chance for a way out of Brooklyn and to achieve his dreams of becoming a real dancer. From the Bee Gee's soundtrack to ...
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Disco Godfather (also known as The Avenging Disco Godfather) is a 1979 American action film starring Rudy Ray Moore and Carol Speed, directed by J. Robert Wagoner and released by Transvue Pictures. J. Robert Wagoner wrote and directed Disco Godfather while living in The Hotel Carver.
DISCO GODFATHER is the last of Rudy Ray Moore's '70s schlock-fests and possibly the most surreal of them. The story sees Moore's titular character going on a rampage of revenge when his nephew gets whacked-out after overdosing on the new designer drug angel dust.
Disco Godfather Reviews. While the hilarious karate and hallucinations that close the film are worth the wait, they don't justify the gleeful submission to the era's fads or the preachy,...
Jan 29, 2020 · Jan 29, 2020. Disco Godfather is a magical film, another classic so-bad-it’s-good effort from star and producer Rudy Ray Moore. It’s sort of a disco blaxploitation kung fu drug movie, and...
