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Rudy Ray Moore: Dolemites
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Rudy Ray Moore is RUDE. Filmed in 1982 in front of a live audience at Blueberry Hill in Los Angeles, the King of the Party Records performs the comedy routines and raps that made him both famous and notorious. This is the earliest known footage of Rudy Ray’s nightclub act, and includes classic material from Eat Out More Often and Dolemite for President, including his recital of the legend “Dolemite.” Witness Rudy Ray sparring with a live audience in this historical document of the greatest “blue” comedian of all time. Also featured are Rudy Ray’s longtime opening act Leroy and Skillet, delivering their timeless burlesque comedy with the help of Cathy Cooper and Cardella Demilo.
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Rudy Ray Moore is a living legend and a cultural treasure to the black community. Comedian, singer, film actor, and film producer he is a an icon best known as Dolemite, the uniquely articulate character from the 1975 film Dolemite, and its sequel, The Human Tornado. The persona was developed during his earlier stand-up comedy records.
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Stand-up comedy legend Rudy Ray Moore's foul-mouthed rap routines took many of the elements of blaxploitation films -- pimps, gangsters, and sex -- to their hilarious limits. It was only natural that he should take his stage persona to the big screen as Dolemite, the "baddest" cool cat in town. Dolemite is a wrongly accused clubowner who is set up by arch-rival Willie Green (D'Urville Martin, who directed) and sent to jail. A madam named Queen Bee (Lady Reed) gets him released on the condition that he helps the cops find Green, and Dolemite is picked up from prison by a slew of multi-ethnic beauties who bring his "pimp-threads" so he can operate. There are many colorful street scenes and funny characters, including "The Hamburger Pimp" and the usual corrupt officials. Dolemite has sex, raps some funny comedy routines (including the underground classic "Signifyin' Monkey") and uses an all-girl kung-fu army to bring down the bad guys.
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This double-feature DVD set includes two African-American kung-fu films: Al Adamson's Black Samurai and Rudy Ray Moore's Shaolin Dolemite. The latter is merely a "comically" re-dubbed kung fu movie with new footage of Rudy Ray Moore inserted throughout, but Black Samurai (1977) is a vintage classic of "B" movie luster. Director Adamson (Satan's Sadists, Dracula vs. Frankenstein) was one of the most notorious filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s underground, drive-in period (he was murdered in 1995). He had very little talent for filmmaking and even less for martial arts choreography, but that didn't stop him from putting a great deal of gusto into this Enter the Dragon-like film about a secret agent (Jim Kelly) infiltrating a crime syndicate to set things right. It's slow and heavy on the bad dialogue, but Kelly (Enter the Dragon) is so cool he appears to be acting in a different movie. A number of intentional laughs make this one worth checking out -- unlike Shaolin Dolemite, which commits the sin of trying to be funny and failing.
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When a cop gets over his head in trouble with crooks, Rudy Ray Moore's funky, kung fu-fighting Dolemite has to save the day, in "Shaolin Dolemite." Harland Williams, "Uncle Floyd" Vivino ... star. AKA: "Big Money Hustlas." Then, a group of Haitian voodoo-worshippers kidnaps secret agent Jim Kelly's girlfriend, sending the "Black Samurai" into action using his wits and martial arts expertise to find her. D'Urville Martin, Marilyn Joi and Felix Silla also star. AKA: "Black Terminator."
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Blaxploitation godfather Rudy Ray Moore performs his raunchy standup routine before a live audience in this concert film. Those who are familiar with Moore's records and appearances in low-budget action/comedy pictures (Dolemite, The Monkey Hustle) will know what to expect: crude, gleefully vulgar jokes about the African-American experience delivered with boisterous style and funky rhythm. Moore's comedy is not for the faint-hearted, and his subjects include pimps and prostitutes, blatant racial stereotypes, babies having sex, dogs urinating on blind men, and Santa Claus committing suicide. He ... performs several classic routines from his albums, including Dolemite and Close Encounters of the Sex Kind. Also appearing as an intermission are the comedy team Leroy and Skillet, performing a pair of skits that concern whiskey, ugly babies, and the judicial system. Those who can take it blue will bust a gut at Rude, so screw your wig on tight and put your weight on it, because Rudy Ray Moore is bound to make everything down and funky.
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