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The Slams
The Slams
	Film poster by John Solie
Directed by	Jonathan Kaplan
Written by	Richard DeLong Adams
Produced by	Gene Corman
Starring	Jim Brown; Judy Pace; Roland Bob Harris
Cinematography	Andrew Davis
Edited by	Morton Tubor
Music by	Luther Henderson
Production; company	Penelope Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	September 26, 1973;
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Slams is a 1973 American action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Jim Brown.

Plot

Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police after a heist. In jail, Curtis has to deal with people who want to know where he stashed the loot while also trying to get out of jail in time to get the money before its hiding place is demolished.

Cast

Jim Brown as Curtis X. Hook
Judy Pace as Iris Daniels
Roland Bob Harris as Captain Stambell (as Roland 'Bob' Harris)
Paul Harris as Jackson Barney (as Paul E. Harris)
Frank DeKova as Capiello
Ted Cassidy as Glover
Frenchia Guizon as Macey
John Dennis as Sergeant Morella / Flood
Jac Emel as Zack
Quinn K. Redeker as The Warden (as Quinn Redeker)

Tagline

JIM BROWN goes over the wall to flash with a million $ stash.

Production

The film was produced by Gene Corman, brother of famous B-movie producer Roger Corman. Gene hired Kaplan on the basis of the director's handling of the black subplot in Roger Corman's The Student Teachers. The only requirement was that Kaplan meet with Jim Brown. "I found him to be quite sweet, quite charming," says Kaplan.^[1]

Kaplan found Gene Corman a far more hands on producer than his brother, casting the movie and using his own editor. The film was shot on location mostly at Lincoln Heights Prison in Los Angeles.^[1]

Brown wanted to fight someone bigger than him in a fight scene so Ted Cassidy was cast. Kaplan said he found the way to keep Brown engaged in the movie was to get him involved in some sort of competition, so he organised people to play chess with him in between takes.^[1]

"We got along because I treated him like an actor, not like an ex-football player," said Kaplan.^[2]

Reception

Dennis Schwartz gave it a C+ and said the film "Aims to prove that blacks like whites can also play amoral criminal hero roles with a straight face and a smirk."^[3] Critic Mike McGranaghan gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "It's everything you could ever want from a Jim Brown prison movie."^[4]