Independent distributors Olive Films will add five new titles to their Blu-ray catalog in June: Jack Hill's
Coffy (1973) and
Foxy Brown (1974), Bruce D. Clark's
Hammer (1972), Arthur Marks'
Friday Foster (1975), and Susan Seidelman's
She-Devil (1989).
Coffy
She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier, and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun, a razor or just her bare hands, she doesn't miss a beat in this "smashing, no-holds-barred tale of retaliation" (Variety)! Nobody ever commandeered the screen quite like Pam Grier, and Coffy "couldn't be better! [It's] one of the most entertaining movies ever made" (Quentin Tarantino)!
Grier is Coffy, nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has been doped up - and freaked out - by a greedy drug pusher, she not only puts an end to his miserable days, but she vows to follow his trail of corruption up to the top - the very top. But what Coffy doesn't realize is that all is not as it seems - and that the leafy green behind the pushers' scene just may come from someone she knows!
STREET DATE: JUNE 9.
Foxy Brown
She's brown sugar and spice...and if you don't watch it, she'll put you on ice! Delivering a performance worthy of "the Queen of the genre" (Los Angeles Times), Grier portrays one of the screen's first action heroines with humor, sensitivity and steely determination. This electrifying revenge thriller explodes with all the sex appeal and cooler-than-cool attitude of its irresistible leading lady.
Foxy Brown (Grier) has found her soul mate in an undercover narcotics investigator, but when he is brutally murdered, she swears vengeance against the crime ring responsible. Posing as a call girl to gain access to the ring's inner circle, Foxy discovers just how high the corruption extends, igniting a blistering war that takes her from the city streets to a remote drug laboratory to a breathtaking mid-air battle behind the controls of an airplane! But the most startling confrontations are yet to come, as she schemes to bring down her boyfriend's killers in ways they never could have imagined.
STREET DATE: JUNE 9.
Hammer
Grab a ringside seat and get ready to rumble with an action-filled foray into the world of jive-talkin' scammers and schemers! Soul Cinema heavyweight Fred Williamson (Starsky & Hutch) "hammers his way to the top" (LA Herald-Examiner) in this super-fly fight film that's the real deal!
After spending his life trying to get off the streets of LA, ex-Golden Gloves champ B.J. Hammer (Williamson) has finally earned his shot at boxing's big time. But the mob delivers Hammer a heavy blow when they kidnap his girlfriend and order him to throw the main event. Now, facing the biggest, baddest bout of his career, B.J. must give up his dream of becoming a legit player... or risk losing the only person who's ever truly been in his corner!
STREET DATE: JUNE 9.
Friday Foster
Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier leads an outta-sight, all-star cast, including Yaphet Kotto (Alien), Eartha Kitt (TV's original Catwoman), Carl Weathers (Rocky), Scatman Crothers (The Shining), Ted Lange ("The Love Boat"), Jim Backus ("Gilligan's Island") and Godfrey Cambridge (Cotton Comes To Harlem) in this ultra-slick, pulse-pumping actioner that brings a foxy camerawoman into the focus of danger!
When photographer Friday Foster (Grier) unwittingly uncovers a white supremacist plot to knock off all of the country's top black leaders, she and her free-wheelin', trouble-dealin' P.I. Friend, Hawkins (Kotto), go on a mission to stomp the killers' plans! From the backstage murders at a righteous fashion show to a pedal-to-the-metal car chase from a funeral - in a hearse(!) - this shutterbuggin' babe will go anywhere and do anything to expose the corruption - only this time, the shooting isn't just with a camera!
STREET DATE: JUNE 9.
She-Devil
Someone stole her husband... and now there's hell to pay! Roseanne Barr puts a hilarious twist on the "domestic goddess" persona that made her a star, and Meryl Streep makes you "marvel at [her] real comic witchcraft" (Newsweek). She-Devil is a film that doesn't stop at mild-mannered prankster revenge - it's a funny Fatal Attraction on steroids, with attitude, that's gone bad!
Meet Mary Fisher (Streep). She's got it all: a cliff-side villa overlooking the ocean, a wholly satisfying career as a romance novelist... and Ruth Patchett's husband. And when Ruth (Barr) discovers that her social-climbing spouse (Ed Begley, Jr.) has been spending his time at Mary's pink-and-white-monstrosity-by-the-sea, she doesn't just vow to get him back... she vows to get even! Setting out to destroy his business accounts - as well as Mary's precious reputation and career - Ruth proves the old adage about a woman scorned - by delivering up a husband nearly scorched!
STREET DATE: JUNE 9.