The Black Actors and Black Action Movies

Hollywood saw dollar signs after watching the success of an independent director named Melvin Van Peebles. Shaft was a detective movie from MGM starring Richard Roundry with a soundtrack by Isaac Hayes. The low budget movie studio where Pam had once worked, American International Pictures or AIP, asked Jack Hill to make an action movie starring a black actress. On next episode, Pam lands her biggest role yet and becomes a sensation.