June 19: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Blaxploitation! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next.

Private detective Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier) has come back home to Louisville from the big city of Chicago and she’s fighting back against the criminals out to ruin her father’s insurance business. Teaming up with her father’s partner — and her former lover — Brick Williams (Austin Stoker), she does exactly what she set out to do, even if the local cops warn her off and the thugs blow up her car.

They can kill her dad, they can drag her in a speedboat but they can’t make her give in. This is the kind of movie where Pam Grier effortlessly chases bad guys on a jet ski and dispenses them with a spear gun. In short, everything you want, including Pam kicking at least one of the bad guys directly in the balls.

David Sheldon and William Girdler sold this movie to Samuel Arkoff by telling him they already had a script done. Well, they didn’t. A day later, after selling the movie, they did.

This was also the last movie that Girdler would make in Kentucky, now ready to move onward.

As much as I like Girdler’s films, Jack Hill knew how to make Pam Grier movies. The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Coffy and Foxy Brown really are a high bar to achieve, if you think about it.