When asked about why she chose to do so many nude scenes in this and other films, Pam Grier. said, "Being nude in those movies, I was trying to help men understand. Society created this mystery about the vagina, the breasts. When you create a mystery, people want to see it and attack it if they can't have it. So I was like, 'Here's the mystery. I hope I bore you and you'll never get a hard-on again'."
Shot in 18 days.
American-International Pictures lost the chance to make Cleopatra Jones (1973) and made this film instead, which ended up grossing more money in spite of a smaller budget.
The tagline in advertising was "They call her 'Coffy' and she'll cream you!"