Velvet Smooth

Velvet Smooth
Directed by	Michael L. Fink
Written by	Leonard Michaels Jan Weber
Produced by	Michael L. Fink Joel Schild Marvin Schild
Starring	Johnnie Hill
Cinematography	Jay Dubin
Distributed by	Howard Mahler Films
Release date	June 30, 1976 (1976-06-30)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20,000
Box office	$770,000

Velvet Smooth is a 1976 American blaxploitation film directed by Michael L. Fink and starring Johnnie Hill. The screenplay concerns a crime lord who hires a female private detective to find out who's stealing his business. This was the only film role for Hill and co-star Emerson Boozer who had played for the New York Jets (1966–1975).

Plot

Somebody's running a takeover on crime lord King Lathrop's (Owen Watson) operation using bogarts in Hannibal Lector lookin’-like masks. Clueless, King Lathrop calls private detective Velvet Smooth (Johnnie Hill) for help. With the help of her friends Ria (Elsie Roman), a lawyer, and Frankie (René Van Clief), she infiltrates the criminal underworld to investigate.

Velvet finds this may be an inside job led by King Lathrop's man Calvin (James Durrah). When Velvet reports this to Lathrop, he denies it at first but the problems come closer to Calvin. Hurt by it all, Lathrop fires Calvin. Although Lathrop thinks Calvin masterminded the take-over on his own, Velvet remains unconvinced and seeks further to find out who was the man behind the man.

See also

• List of blaxploitation films

External links

• Velvet Smooth at IMDb
• Velvet Smooth at Rotten Tomatoes
• Girls With Guns review