Directed by Gilbert Moses Written by Ron Cutler Joe Keyes Jr. Cast Roscoe Orman ... Willie Diana Sands ... Cora Thalmus Rasulala ... Robert Daniels Joyce Walker ... Pashen Roger Robinson ... Bell George Murdock ... Celli Albert Hall ... Pointer Norma Donaldson ... Honey Juanita Brown ... Sola Royce Wallace ... Willie's Mother Judith Brown ... Gorgia (as Judy Brown) Marilyn Coleman ... Connie Mary Charlotte Wilcox ... Scatback (as Mary Wilcox) Marcia McBroom ... Pearl Jack Bernardi ... Willie's Lawyer Ted Gehring ... Sergeant Ron Henriquez ... Cyrus Wynn Irwin ... Bailiff #1 Nathaniel Taylor ... Sugar (as Richard Lawson) Ken Lynch ... Judge #1 Davis Roberts ... Judge #2 Uncredited Cast Tol Avery ... Business International Association Television Speaker Al Bain ... Conventioneer Jack Berle ... Courtroom Spectator Calvin Brown ... Thug / Bailiff Robert DoQui ... Baylor the Pimp Ken DuMain ... Conventioneer Jac Emel ... Pimp Ben Frommer ... Hotel Guest Slim Gaillard ... Bum watching Willie's Car Bob Harks ... Bailiff Robert Hitchcock ... Tenant Kathryn Janssen ... Bailiff Leslie McRay ... Competing Prostitute Murray Pollack ... Observer in Hallway Tony Regan ... Restaurant Patron Clark Ross ... Observer in Hallway Jeffrey Sayre ... Conventioneer Olan Soule ... Conventioneer arrested in Vice Raid Norman Stevans ... Conventioneer Bob Templeton ... Doorman Alan Weeks ... Photographer George Wyner ... Bailiff Produced by David Brown Richard D. Zanuck Original Music by J.J. Johnson

Additional Info Premiere: January 23, 1974 DVD Release: January 11, 2005 Blu-ray Release: January 08, 2019 Country: Distributor: Arrow Films Websites: Production Companies Generation 70 (produced in association with) Universal Pictures Zanuck/Brown Productions Distributors Universal Pictures   (1974) (USA) (theatrical) Universal Home Video   (2005) (USA) (DVD) Rating Stats Overall Rating 6.4 / 10 Our Rating -- / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users -- / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #8,418 / 20,698 Site Ranking #8,414 The Passenger (2021) #8,415 The Mangler Reborn (2005) #8,416 Prehistoric Women (1967) #8,417 The House Of Clocks (1989) #8,418 Willie Dynamite (1974) #8,419 The New Adventures Of Batman: Season 1 (1977) #8,420 Grotesque (1988) #8,421 The Comeback (1978) #8,422 Sorceress (1995)