Black Belt Jones

About Black Belt Jones

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops.

Robert Clouse's Black Belt Jones is a 1974 comedy crime film. Jim Kelly stars as Black Belt Jones, Gloria Hendry as Sydney, Scatman Crothers as Pop Byrd, and Eric Laneuville as Quincy.

It runs 87 minutes and was released in January 1974. Written by Oscar Williams. It was produced by Sequoia Pictures.

Shelv files it under blaxploitation cinema, black belt, and martial arts. In the United States it streams on TCM. It scores 6.0 out of 10 from 74 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

The Art of Self-Defense, Dolemite, and Cleopatra Jones make useful companions to Black Belt Jones.