The Legend of N***** Charley

The first in a trilogy of Westploitation vehicles that set the stage for movies like Django Unchained and The Harder They Fall.

  • Director

    Martin Goldman

  • With

    Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley

  • USA 1972. 100min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    18

American football icon Williamson embodies Charley, a former slave who becomes an unstoppable force of justice, in this first installment of a loose trilogy featuring the titular character. Leading a fearless trio of escaped slaves, Charley battles brutal enslavers and vicious white supremacists, transforming their hatred into his strength and racial slurs into his monikers. This result is a high-octane blend: one-part Blaxploitation cinema, one-part Western and all camp.