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Now available on Blu-ray in the US and shipping after their sale with a new printing design and slipcover from @DeafCrocodile: #SolomonKing (1974)!
New Printing.
Scanavo case and easier to read design
New slipcover by Tony Stella limited to 300 units
85 min. Dirs. Jack Bomay and Sal Watts. With “Little Jamie” Watts, Claudio Russo, Samaki Bennett, Tito Fuentes, Belinda B. Burton. "Don't you suckers know the days of Uncle Remus and Old Black Joe are gone?," barks ex-CIA operative/ex-Green Beret/nightclub owner Solomon King to a group of Black gang members at the Sugar Hill Club, in actor/director/writer Sal Watts’s long-lost Black urban crime/action film. SOLOMON KING was shot independently in Oakland, CA in 1973 with a cast of mostly non-professional Black actors, a killer soul-funk soundtrack and incredible clothes from Watts’s own Mr. Sal’s Fashion stores. In the vein of SHAFT meets THE LIQUIDATOR (with slo-mo kung fu fight scenes straight out of the Dirk Diggler movies in BOOGIE NIGHTS), the film stars Watts as an African American version of James Bond/Matt Helm, seducing beautiful nightclub singers and beating the crap out of the henchmen of an oil-obsessed Middle Eastern ruler. Produced on a shoestring budget and shot on location in many of the businesses Watts owned, the film is a priceless document of early Seventies Black culture, music and fashion in Oakland – and a powerful metaphor for Black empowerment, with Solomon turning the tables on every duplicitous white character he encounters. “You can’t do a damn thing without the motherf**in’ white man calling the shots,” he observes at one point. Watts’s personal story is even more fascinating: emerging from grinding poverty and racism in Mississippi, he went on to become a filmmaker and actor, record label owner, host of TV dance program “Soul Is,” fashion store owner and restaurateur in the 1970s, before serving time in federal prison on tax charges and dying in 2003. Restored with the cooperation of his widow Belinda Burton-Watts (who appears in the film), utilizing one of the only surviving complete prints of the film from UCLA Film & TV Archive and the original soundtrack elements, SOLOMON KING like Rudy Ray Moore’s DOLEMITE (1975) is both a wildly entertaining, funk-fueled action/fantasy – and a prime example of an independent Black filmmaker trying to break into the commercial film market his own way.
directed by: Sal Watts/Jack Bomay
starring: Sal Watts, "Little" Jamie Watts, Samaki Bennet, Claudia Russo, Felice Kinchelow, Louis Zito, Tanya Boyd (uncredited)
1974 / 84 min / 1.85:1 / English DTS HD-MA 2.0
Bonus Features
New restoration by Deaf Crocodile from the only known complete 35mm print
New commentary track by film critic and historian Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central, A Walter Hill Film - MZS Press)
New commentary track by author, journalist, and documentary film producer Steve Ryfle (Ishiro Honda - Wesleyan University Press)
New three-part video interview with Belinda Burton-Watts (widow of director/star Sal Watts)
New essay by Josiah Howard (Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide - FAB Press)
July 18, 1976 episode of THE JAY PAYTON show (executive produced by Sal Watts)
Reproduction of the original SOLOMON KING pressbook
Restoration demo
Blu-ray mastering and authoring by David Mackenzie/Fidelity in Motion
Optional English SDH subtitles
Trailer: https://t.co/2Wusm0ECQL
Purchase: https://t.co/Iq5Xc858Ze
Standard edition: https://t.co/sUIIrjzJXx
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Guess what?! There is a new episode up of our podcast!
Next week we will have a new episode going over our preorders launching on June 20th, but today you can access our episode that is an audio commentary from our release of #SolomonKing!
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That’s the kind of tv you have to have put in place then they build the house around it
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The music in this is fantastic. Annoyed that I can’t find the entire thing streaming
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Shelly Babcock in “Solomon King”
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Samaki Bennett of the funk group The Variations in “Solomon King”
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I watched this on TCM Underground Movie on Feb 4th 2023 in the last days of Underground. So this will go down in my records as one of those both Underground and Cult Shelf Movies. #SolomonKing #CultShelf
Early mornings at #NathanPhillipsSquare have their own magic. Had the privilege of capturing Indigenous artist #SolomonKing for a special project w/ @georgiancollege
Excited to share more soon - stay tuned!
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There were wrong about The Running Time for this. Said 110 Min. It was 90 Min. Movie was a Blast though. #SolomonKing #TCMParty
I was trying to find clearer pictures but this restoration is new-as in was released to the public in January 2023 *new* so thanks @tcm for delivering the freshest in freshly rediscovered and restored blaxploitation films
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Claudia Russo in “Solomon King”
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Samaki Bennett of the funk group The Variations in “Solomon King”
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