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Black Belt Jones copied from Black Belt Jones Black Belt Jones is a 1974 American Blaxploitation martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse, starring Jim Kelly and Gloria Hendry.Together Clouse, Fred Weintraub, and Paul Heller creators of Enter The Dragon, gave Jim Kelly his first big starring role. Kelly’s character Black Belt Jones, is a local hero who fights the Mafia and a local drug dealer threatening his friend’s karate school.

Plot

The film opens with the Mafia counting their money, a police informant is with them, and the Mob gets rid of him. The next scene, depicts Black Belt Jones protecting ambassadors from a couple of unknown henchmen. The cops later contact Jones to help them take down the Mafia. The Mafia learns that a new civic center will be built, and they buy all of the land for the site of the building—all except for one place: a karate school owned by Pop Byrd, Black Belt Jones' old friend. The Don reaches out to a local drug dealer Pinky, who owes him money and a few favors. Pop Byrd had borrowed money from Pinky, in order to open his school. Pinky had been stealing money from the mafia and was forced to pay them $250,000 or get Pop's building for them. Pinky inflated the debt, with the intent of offering Pop the deal of trading his building in exchange for the debt being cleared. However, things do not go as planned, as Pop is accidentally killed by Pinky's men during an intimidation attempt. Before he dies, he states that he couldn't give them the building to settle his debt, because it did not belong to him, but to someone named Sydney. Pinky then decides to send his men to the karate school, to inform them of Pop's debt (inflated yet again) and attempt the same scheme. However, the thugs are beaten up by Black Belt Jones and the students.

Pop Byrd’s daughter Sydney (Gloria Hendry) returns home as owner of the karate school, she seeks to find out more about her father, and what caused his sudden death. After demanding to know what happened to her father, she is informed of the mafia's activities as well as her father's debt, but says she won't sell the building. Angered, she is determined to punish the people who caused her father's death. Sydney approaches Pinky’s men and ends up in a brawl, being well trained in karate, she defeats them. As retaliation, Pinky kidnaps one of the students (Quincy) and demands for them to turn over the school or give him the money. Together Black Belt Jones and Sydney, alongside some other unexpected characters and the police, steal the Mafia’s money. They then give the money to Pinky, framing him for the heist, while simultaneously rescuing Quincy. Pinky does not hold up his end of the deal, and Jones has to defeat all of his henchmen. The film ends with the Mafia and Pinky in a car chase pursuing Jones and Sydney. They all participate in a long comedy-filled fight scene in a truck yard. Jones, Sydney, and Pop Byrd’s students are victorious. The Mafia and Pinky end up in garbage trucks, escorted by the police.