Review of Tom

Tom (1973)
5/10
racism and free love
21 October 2013
By going for the DVD of Hi-Riders (1978) this was but on as an extra. There's not that much action going on and it contains a lot of blah blah but still it's worth watching only to see how America was back then just after the Vietnam war. This flick is all about racism that is written here as Jim (Greydon Clark) loses his best friend, a black American, in the war. He want to go to the black ghetto's to tell the father that his son died but he isn't welcome in the ghetto.

From here on we do see how racism worked and how corrupt the cops were always going for the white people and beating up the black ones. The acting isn't all that good and it really looks outdated but it's worth watching as I said before due Aldo Ray being in it as the corrupt sergeant.

It was completely shot in the Watts era in Los Angeles. Also that is worth seeing. Guess everyone knows about the Watts riots in 1965. Another thing I was rather surprised of was the amount of gratuitous nudity and that coming from white and black people. And a lot is full frontal, of course it's early seventies so that means full bushes! For those common with sexploitations could recognise Bambi Allen as Bobbi very active in the sixties and seventies. She to be seen in a lot of biker movies and maybe you remember her with her trademark, voluptuous silicone juggs and pigtails. Sadly she dies shortly after this flick aged 34 due cancer caused by the silicons.

It also shows what free love meant to be. Jim for example had a lot of lovers. And the skinny dipping pool party is so seventies. Only for blaxploitation lovers with a message. But as a freebie it was great to see this.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
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