The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.
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Johnnie Hill-Hudgins
- Velvet Smooth
- (as Johnnie Hill)
Owen Watson
- King Lathrop
- (as Owen Wat-son)
René Van Clief
- Frankie
- (as Rene Van Clief)
Moses Lyllia
- Sgt. Barnes
- (as Moses Illiya)
Wilfredo Roldan
- Rodriguez
- (as Wildredo Roldan)
Sydney Filson
- Dealer
- (as Sidney Filson)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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"This Whole Scene Is Costin'! Can You Dig It?!"...
Mega-gangster King Lathrop (Owen Watson) is being hit, and hit hard. Somebody's moving in on his action, and roughing up his customers. King calls in VELVET SMOOTH (Johnnie Hill) to make things happen. Ms. Smooth gets her crew together, including Frankie (Rene Van Clief).
Let the throw-down showdown begin!
See! A dozen masked thugs karate kicked to near extinction!
Watch! As their manhood is put into critical condition!
Velvet and Frankie are taking out the trash!
VELVET SMOOTH is another "urban" crime-thriller from the 1970's. While it's not at the bottom of the barrel, it's certainly no COFFY or CLEOPATRA JONES, either. It does have that funky 70's charm going on.
Yes, Ms. Hill speaks as though she's still rehearsing her lines, but hey! She's awesome! Looking good in red! Especially when she's kicking major felonious buttocks! Sure, the fight choreography is a bit south of TNT JACKSON, but hey! Velvet is Smooooth! Even when the microphone is in plain view, like a character in itself!
Right on!
EXTRA POINTS FOR: The theme song! "Outta Sight" doesn't even begin to describe it!...
Let the throw-down showdown begin!
See! A dozen masked thugs karate kicked to near extinction!
Watch! As their manhood is put into critical condition!
Velvet and Frankie are taking out the trash!
VELVET SMOOTH is another "urban" crime-thriller from the 1970's. While it's not at the bottom of the barrel, it's certainly no COFFY or CLEOPATRA JONES, either. It does have that funky 70's charm going on.
Yes, Ms. Hill speaks as though she's still rehearsing her lines, but hey! She's awesome! Looking good in red! Especially when she's kicking major felonious buttocks! Sure, the fight choreography is a bit south of TNT JACKSON, but hey! Velvet is Smooooth! Even when the microphone is in plain view, like a character in itself!
Right on!
EXTRA POINTS FOR: The theme song! "Outta Sight" doesn't even begin to describe it!...
What Did I Just Watch?
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.
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.
I'm Still Laughing!!
'Velvet Smooth' has to be the least convincing martial arts movie I've ever seen. I was laughing so much I got a pain, I could have beaten most of these guys/gals and I'm disabled!
It really is bottom of the barrel stuff but it gets a 1.5 for entertainment value, for Johnnie Hill-Hudgins in her one and only acting role, as Velvet Smooth, (who came across better than any of the other actors in the film) AND for the last line which just had me staring at the screen in disbelief...I mean WTF :-)
If you love watching bad movies that are hilarious then I direct you to 'Velvet Smoooooooth'!
It really is bottom of the barrel stuff but it gets a 1.5 for entertainment value, for Johnnie Hill-Hudgins in her one and only acting role, as Velvet Smooth, (who came across better than any of the other actors in the film) AND for the last line which just had me staring at the screen in disbelief...I mean WTF :-)
If you love watching bad movies that are hilarious then I direct you to 'Velvet Smoooooooth'!
Cleo Jones she ain't...
Velvet Smooth (1975) plunders Cleopatra Jones territory and stars Johnnie Hill, a stick-thin fashion disaster in her lemon suit and Tamara Dobson afro wig. Martial arts was the old stand-by to warm up any old leftovers, and true to grindhouse cinema tradition, Velvet Smooth contains the lamest kung-fu scenes you'll ever witness, where the punches land twelve inches from their target. Best of all is the title song: "Velvet Smooth, you are the one... Velvet Smooth, with love or with guns... You're Velvet Smooth, with piece in hand... If fate takes your youth, I won't understand..."
Limp
OK, I believe an in-depth analysis is not exactly necessary for this one. Its only value is in the unintentional laughs it has to offer. The martial-arts choreography is a disgrace to the words "martial" and "arts". The girls may be sexy and smooth, but I'm sorry, a weekend's training in combat is just not enough. The stuntmen are a joke. The fights are slow, clunky, and graceless. "T.N.T Jackson" has better fight scenes than "Velvet Smooth". Peter Sellers and Burt Kwouk have better fight scenes in the "Pink Panther" films. "Benny Hill" has better fight scenes - wait, "Benny Hill" has no fight scenes, I just got carried away by all the sped-up action. Well, you get the idea anyway. I think 0.5 out of 4 stars is a fair enough grade.
Did you know
- TriviaLast role for Sydney Filson.
- GoofsWhen Velvet and King are in his apartment, there is a very visible microphone going back and forth between them on the bottom of the screen, in front of the coffee table.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Planet X: Episode #2.3 (2006)
- How long is Velvet Smooth?Powered by Alexa
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