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She Had Razors Hidden in Her Hair
On the glory of Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier’s two greatest onscreen catfights.
Whether her character was a nurse, an inmate in a Philippine prison, a Nubian warrior, or a private eye in Kentucky, Grier always found time to put a hurting on any man or woman who provoked her. After gleaning his whereabouts from a former employee (and evading her very angry lesbian lover), Coffy goes undercover as a sex worker for King George (Robert DoQui), the pimp whose bad heroin her sister injected. Bare breasts and broken glass fly everywhere, and in one of Grier’s script contributions, Coffy’s coif gives new meaning to the term “good hair” when one unlucky vixen discovers it’s loaded with razor blades.
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