{"id":38839,"date":"2025-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38839"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:14:02","slug":"38839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38839","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Belt Jones&#8221; (1974) starring Jim Kelly \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050125zview_blackbeltjones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Black Belt Jones <\/strong><\/em>(1974)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Clouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Oscar Williams,<\/strong> story by<strong> Fred Weintraub, Alexandra Rose<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry<\/strong><strong>, Scatman Crothers, Alan Weeks, Andre Philippe, Eddie Smith, Alex Brown, Earl Jolly Brown, Marla Gibbs, Ted Lange, Robert Wall <\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Eric Laneuville.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Enter Jim &#8221;Dragon&#8221; Kelly. He clobbers the mob as BLACK BELT JONES.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the mafia learns of a new civic center set to be constructed, they buy up all of the land except for one building.\u00a0 It is owned by &#8220;Pop&#8221; Byrd and houses his karate dojo.\u00a0 When &#8220;Pop&#8221; refuses to sell out, they send in a local drug dealer and his crew.\u00a0 They figure after a beating or two, &#8220;Pop&#8217; will happily sell out.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t know &#8220;Pop&#8221; was friends with Black Belt Jones.\u00a0 Their mistake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Warner Bros. made<em> Black Belt Jones<\/em> after the success of <em>Enter the Dragon<\/em> (and death of Bruce Lee).\u00a0 <em>Black Belt Jones<\/em> reteams <em>Enter the Dragon<\/em>&#8216;s director, Robert Claus and co-star Jim Kelly.\u00a0 The film was marketed to make sure fans wouldn&#8217;t miss the connection.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of kung fu and blaxploitation movies, you should enjoy <em>Black Belt Jones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Black Belt Jones<\/strong> <\/em>(1974) rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050125zview_blackbeltjones2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Belt Jones (1974) Director:\u00a0 Robert Clouse Screenplay: Oscar Williams, story by Fred Weintraub, Alexandra Rose Stars: Jim Kelly, Gloria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38843,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions\/38843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}