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One Sheet (27" x 41") Signed by Director Jack Hill
Very Fine Rolled
American International, 1974

Beautiful Pam Grier stars as a voluptuous vigilante who takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. This example is rolled and was never folded and the design features various action shots of Pam Grier in action! The poster was inscribed by the film's director, Jack Hill, near the lower right corner. It displays mild edge wear, a small area of surface paper loss on the NSS text box above the bottom border, and smudges beneath the top edge. Very Fine

Foxy Brown was a financial success. Produced on a budget of $500,000, it grossed $2,460,000. According to director Jack Hill this was originally intended to be a sequel to his "Coffy" (1973), also starring Pam Grier, and in fact the working title of the film was "Burn, Coffy, Burn!". However, American-International Pictures decided at the last minute it didn't want to do a sequel, even though "Coffy" was a huge hit. That's why it's never said exactly what kind of job Foxy Brown has--"Coffy" was a nurse and since this was no longer to be a sequel, they couldn't give Foxy Brown that job and didn't have time to rewrite the script to establish just what kind of job she had. Pam Grier told Rolling Stone she chose to be nude in many of her early films because she wanted to push the limits of how Black women were perceived in the acting world. She said, "I call it the 'Brown Nipple Revolution.' We weren't the epitome of sexual attraction for the male audience, in movies, magazines, anything. We were told our brown nipples weren't attractive. I was trying to break that line of what was acceptable in society."

Estimate: $500 - 1,000
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