Somebody's running a takeover on crime lord King Lathrop's operation using goons in nondescript full-face masks. Clueless, King Lathrop calls private detective Velvet Smooth (Johnnie Hill) for help. With the help of her friends Ria, a lawyer, and Frankie, she infiltrates the criminal underworld to investigate.
The title song is completely laughable. It's a grade F rip off of Bond theme songs. The print I streamed was just the worst. Filled with emulsion scratch lines and something I've never seen before -- red emulsion dots raining down on the movie. It was like the movie was screen through a bucket of sand!
Anyway the acting is horrible. This is pure grindhouse. Velvet is sort of a poor man's Pam Grier but she's the worst actress on Earth.
The street scenes are clearly filmed without permits. Ordinary people on the street seemed to think this was real! Mostly in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn.
It's really a minor player in the Blaxploitation film genre. Don't let it be your first foray into the mix. It will turn you off to the others that are way better.
