Black Belt Jones
Story : The Mafia, who learns that the City is planning a new civic center is buying the land where it will be, and the one piece they don't have is the karate school owned by Papa Byrd. Now Big Tuna, the Mafia Don's right hand man goes to Pinky, their representative in that area and they tell him that he owes them $250,000 but in lieu of paying him they want him to get Papa Byrd'd school. He tries to muscle him but he throws him out and one of the teachers calls Black Belt Jones, a friend of Papa Byrd to talk to him but before could Pinky accidentally kills him. Before dying he said that the school belongs to Sydney, whom nobody knows. But Black Belt knows that Sydney is his daughter whom he hasn't seen since she was a child. Black Belt asks a government friend of his to find her and he does and she arrives for the funeral and learns about Pinky and goes there and roughs up some of his people. Pinky then goes over to the school and with some back up manages to subdue them and take one of them, and demands either Sydney turn the school over to him or pay him $250,000. Black Belt asks his friend to look into it and discovers the Mafia connection and decides to kill two birds with ine stone it seems that his friend wants him to break into the Mafia stronghold and get some photos that they have and some hot cash. Black belt succeeds and hold $250,000 for Pinky and after giving it to Pinky, he calls his boss to tell that it was Pinky who raided his place. When Pinky convinces Tuna that he is innocent they go after Black Belt.
Video Distributor : Warner Home Video
Year : 1982
Running time : 83 minutes
Actors : Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Malik Cartner, Scatman Crothers, Alan Weeks
Director : Robert Clouse
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