Friday Foster is a 1975 blaxploitation film, written and directed by Arthur Marks, and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It was an adaptation of the 1970-74 eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón and Gray Morrow. This was Grier's final film with American International Pictures. The tagline on the film's poster is "Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!" Friday Foster is a magazine photographer who refuses to heed her boss's admonitions against becoming... involved in the stories to which she is assigned. After witnessing an assassination attempt on the nation's wealthiest African American and then seeing her best friend murdered, Friday finds herself targeted for death. She teams up with private detective Colt Hawkins to investigate, and soon the two are hot on the trail of a plot to eliminate the country's African-American political leadership.
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| Release date: | 1975 |
| Directed by: | Arthur Marks |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Screenplay by: | Arthur Marks, Orville H. Hampton |
| Adapted from: | Friday Foster |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |