Les démolisseurs

Original title: Three the Hard Way

1974
12
1h 29m

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6.2/10

1.9K

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Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.

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Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Eight years after this film's release, Fred Williamson produced, directed, and wrote Les 4 justiciers (1982), which reunited him with Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson conceived the idea to do another sequel during a break between filming Chicago Cop (1983) and Vigilante (1982). The funding for the film, crew, scouting locations, and actors all came together quickly, and the movie was shot in about a month. Williamson considers that film a true sequel to this one.

Goofs
In the Chicago sequence, Jimmy and Jagger are chasing one of the white supremacists through town and they pass the same man twice.

Quotes
Dr. Fortrero: This little mixture of mine is as lethal as cyanide and as selective as a lady buying perfume.
Monroe Feather: It goes to work on the black folks, leave the rest of us alone? You better be damn sure!
Dr. Fortrero: Just like sickle cell anemia, Mr. Feather. And like sickle cell anemia, it will not affect people of the caucasian race. My personal guarantee.
Monroe Feather: How fast does this stuff work?
Dr. Fortrero: Seventy-two hours at the most.
Monroe Feather: Took God seven days to create the world. We can cleanse it, in just three.

Alternate versions
Additional scenes were added to the TV version to pad out the running time and for content.

Connections
Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 4 (1997)

Soundtracks
Wendy
Music by Richard Tufo
Lyrics by Lowrell Simon
Performed by The Impressions (as Impressions)
Courtesy of Buddah and Curtom Records

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Featured review

7/10

Too much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really appreciate the blaxploitation flix for all their fabs and flaws. This one in particular is an inspiring but flawed film. Not so much as the story, but in the stunts. When Jim Kelly is fighting the crooked cops in the streets, he switches from boots to sneeks!!!! The three female friends look awfully macho while riding through the city. Overall, the story is scary, in the notion that some wealthy racists would ever try to do something so sinister. A fun film, with true heroes and vile villains.