The Bad Bunch is an American 1973 blaxploitation

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States circa 1970. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience...

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 film directed by and co-starring Greydon Clark

Greydon Clark

Greydon Clark is an American film writer, director, producer, and actor. His career spans several decades and genres, although the majority of his work has been low-budget productions in the action/horror genres...

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Plot

The film is a study of prejudice and discrimination. It tells the story of a black gang who run the streets of Watta and of Jim, a white man, who tries to befriend them. Prejudice stands in the way of any friendship and turns black against white in a mid '70s, does much to show how society has progressed, but to some it may seem that "the more things change, the more they stay the same."

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by Four Star International in 1973 and re-released by Dimension Pictures in 1976.

The film was released on a double feature DVD

DVD

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 with Clark's Hi-Riders

Hi-Riders

Hi-Riders is a 1978 action film written and directed by Greydon Clark.-Plot:Mark and Lynn get caught up in a story of hatred and revenge after trying to collect on a bet with a Hi-Rider. The Hi-Riders are challenged to a drag race by one of the local hot heads and in a spectacular explosion both...

 by VCI Home Entertainment in 2010.