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3 | ->''"Git back, Jack! Give him no jive! He's the BAAADEST cat in '75."'' |
4 | -->-- '''{{Tagline}}''' |
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6 | ''The Candy Tangerine Man'' is a 1975 {{Blaxploitation}} film. |
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8 | Roy Lewis masquerades as a mild-mannered businessman, but is really a pimp known as "the Black Baron." His pimping business is very lucrative, but he has to deal with the Mob wanting to put him out of business. |
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11 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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13 | * ArchEnemy: The Black Baron has a pair of unnamed cops who will commit any crime to bring him down. |
14 | * BigBad: Vincent de Nunzio, the crime boss who is trying to run the Baron out of business. |
15 | * DeceptivelySillyTitle: Sounds like a children's tale about a magical being, but is really a crime thriller about a pimp. |
16 | * DirtyHarriet; The Baron encounters the crossdressing variant immediately after the opening credits. He [[GroinAttack crushes the man's Johnson in order to escape]]. |
17 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The two cops' car is knocked off a cliff by the Baron, with them inside.]] |
18 | * EvilPlan: Vincent de Nunzio seeks to take over a rival pimp's territory. |
19 | * ExactWords: [[spoiler:The Baron tells the two cops pursuing him that he'll "let [them] go if they give him some information. They do, and he knocks their car off the cliff it was hanging onto.]] |
20 | * TheMafia: The main antagonists are stereotypical mobsters who want to ruin the Baron's business. |
21 | * NonIndicativeName: There is no "Candy Tangerine Man." The protagonist goes by "the Black Baron." |
22 | * RabidCop: The secondary antagonists are a pair of racist cops who are willing to [[spoiler:assault and rape a teenage girl]] to catch the Baron. |
23 | * SecretIdentity: Roy's family and neighbours do not know that he is the Black Baron. |
24 | * VillainProtagonist: Roy "The Black Baron" Lewis, a pimp who spends the film brutalizing anybody who stands in his way and lies to his family about what he does. [[spoiler:He does redeem himself by the end, but is still a brutal murderer.]] |
25 | * WeaponizedCar: The Baron has machine guns in his headlights. |
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