Darktown Strutters
1975, PG, 85 min.
Directed by William Whitney, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stan Shaw, Bettye Sweet, Shirley Washington, Roger E. Mosley, Trina Parks.

“Super Sisters on Cycles” screams the poster of this blaxploitation movie about a woman who exposes a plot by a Col. Sanders look-alike to clone the nation’s black leaders. This blaxploitation treasure also features a script by George Armitage and set design by Jack Fisk.

This article appears in September 20 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.