Rudy Ray Moore
Also Known As: Prince DuMarr
Biography: Rudolph Frank Moore, known as Rudy Ray Moore, was an American comedian, musician, singer, film actor, and film producer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
Birthday: March 17, 1927
Deathday: October 19, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Murder Was the Case: The Movie
Overview: Follows the exploits of Snoop Doggy Dogg as he gets shot, and makes a deal with the devil to survive.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-14
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The Best of Sex and Violence
Overview: Hosted by John Carradine, this tape is a compilation of scenes from and previews for various exploitation films.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Overview: Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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American Pimp
Overview: Street pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being flamboyant, pimping in various U.S. cities, bringing a woman into their group, taking a woman from another pimp, and the rules and regulations of pimping. The men are clear: it's about money.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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The Human Tornado
Overview: Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-02
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Petey Wheatstraw
Overview: Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to give him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-01
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Violent New Breed
Overview: A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Big Money Hustlas
Overview: Sugar Bear, a detective from San Francisco, is called down to New York City by their police chief to assist officer Harry Cox. Their mission is to take down the corrupt crime ring controlled by Big Baby Sweets and his two right-hand men, Big Stank and Lil' Poot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-18
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Penitentiary II
Overview: An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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B.A.P.S
Overview: Two clueless homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers, but instead find themselves scamming a dying millionaire to eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Dolemite
Overview: Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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The Monkey Hustle
Overview: A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Disco Godfather
Overview: Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-04
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Shaolin Dolemite
Overview: The film was created by re-dubbing footage filmed for the 1986 Taiwanese kung fu film Ren zhe da (known in English as Ninja: The Final Duel). Ren zhe da producer Robert Tai had reportedly filmed 10 hours of footage for the film that was cut to 90 minutes for release. Much of the footage that was not included in the release of Ren zhe da is included in Shaolin Dolemite as well as original footage of Moore observing the story of the film and making obscenity-laced comments. Other new footage includes a segment portraying Moore's long time friend Jimmy Lynch as a Drunken Master named Sam the Spliff.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Rude
Overview: While Rudy Ray Moore is best remembered today for his outrageous blaxploitation movies, such as Dolemite and The Human Tornado, he started out as a standup comedian who broke barriers for off-color comedy on such "party" albums as Eat Out More Often. Rude is a performance film which captures Moore on-stage at a comedy club, delivering the rhyming rap routines and epic tales of sexual conquest that first made him famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-14
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The Drunken Dead Guy
Overview: This is the story of Tom, an advertising contractor with an empty, gray existence, as cold as his commute to work through the concrete. After an untimely death, he enjoys the comforts of Heaven, but a wrongly perceived crises (God doesn't understand that the Devils are a hockey team)results in the need for a miracle. Tom is the unlucky choice to be risen up to fight the Devils. Unfortunately, Heaven botches the job and Tom is a rotting corpse. The only solution is for him to drink a lot of alcohol to preserve himself. The side effect is that he gets intoxicated!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Watermelon Heist
Overview: To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Overview: The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so culture-jamtastic that we're sorry we can't be there to hold your hand as you watch in dazed amazement. Thousands of hours of brain-boiling footage have been concentrated into an impenetrable jewel of an experience, teach us once and for all that loving well is the best revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-03
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Afros, Macks & Zodiacs
Overview: A compilation of some of the best Black Action films of the 70s! Hosted by Mr. Dolemite himself... RUDY RAY MOORE!
Genres: Documentary Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Vampire Assassin
Overview: Martial artist Ron Hall stars in this dark vampire thriller reminiscent of BLADE. Ambitious cop Derek (Hall) is dogged by a phobia that is unfortunate in his line of work. Having witnessed his father's murder as a young child, he is deathly afraid of blood, but when he takes the law into his own hands to catch underworld counterfeiter Gustoff Slovak, he is forced to face his fear. The operation blows up in his face, resulting in a massacre that leaves Derek the only one of his team to survive. Derek reaches the shocking conclusion that Slovak is actually a vampire, and joins forces with the last in a long line of vampire hunters, Master Kao, who agrees to train Derek in his ancient art. However, in order to combat Slovak--whose past intersects with Derek's own in disturbing ways--Derek must become that which he hates the most: a vampire.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-09
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Fakin' Da Funk
Overview: Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family, are trying to adapt to their mostly black neighbourhood of South Central.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-20
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The Dolemite Explosion
Overview: This low budget action film, originally titled "The Return of Dolemite", follows Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite, who returns from Africa with superpowers gained from drinking Voodoo Juice.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Lil' Pimp
Overview: A comedy about a nine-year-old pimp, Lil' Pimp, who hustles his ho's around the neighborhood. Along with his Mom, Pop, pimpin' pals Fruitjuice and Nagchampa, as well as superfine ho's, Yam Basket and Honeysak, and his loveable pet gerbil Weathers, who has Tourette's syndrome, Lil' Pimp generates laughs, magic and brutal honesty.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-11
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Rudy Ray Moore: Live at Wetlands: N.Y.C.
Overview: Rudy Ray Moore -- an underground comedian and blaxploitation star of the 1960s and '70s -- revisits his other career as an R&B singer in this 2000 concert filmed live at New York City's Wetlands and featuring special guest Jimmy "Funky Tramp" Lynch. The raucous set list blends Moore's infamous foulmouthed comedy with songs such as "Hully Gully Fever," "Hip Shakin' Papa," "Put Me in the Mix" and "Do You Call That a Buddy?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder
Overview: Rudy Ray Moore tells all as only he can in this all-new retrospective legendary career. From his humble beginnings to his crowning as "King of the Party Records," Rudy Ray guides us through his struggles and triumphs in the film and music industries.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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It Came from Trafalgar
Overview: 1950s horror / sci-fi parody. Mostly filmed in 2003, this was only briefly screened on the convention circuit in 2009. There's been no release since.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Jackie's Back!
Overview: A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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Bada$$ Mothaf**kas
Overview: Blaxploitation star Fred "The Hammer" Williamson hosts a collection of trailers and clips from the Blaxploitation genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-23
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