Friday Foster

Director: Arthur Marks

1975 / 90min / 35mm

Based on a syndicated comic strip, Grier’s final film for American International Pictures was this fleet-footed, provocative mystery thriller, featuring Grier in the title role as a sultry, strong-willed model-turned-newspaper-photographer who pairs up with private eye Yaphet Kotto to investigate a plot against America’s Black political leadership, along the way encountering a cast of characters that includes Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers, and Carl Weathers.