Sweet revenge
Added 3/22/2009
Considering this movie was made in 1982, it's pretty good especially if you enjoy watching a woman beater and murderer get his just rewards ( no matter if she is a hooker and he is her Pimp ). With the violence, sexual content and strong language, this isn't a movie for everyone and the Thanksgiving family get-together probably isn't the time to break it out.
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Good action from the 80's!
Added 8/31/2008
Vice Squad is a great action movie from the 80's if you like shows like "The Shield". The movie stars a young "Wings Hauser"(Ramrod) and "Season Hubley"(Princess). Ramrod is a pimp in the dark streets of L.A. who kills one of his ladies of the evening (Ginger) who is friends with Princess. After speaking with the police, Princess is distraught over the death of her friend Ginger and agrees to set up Ramrod. The two battle it out in the means streets!! Check out this action thriller!!
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Are you a cop?
Added 7/31/2007
WOW, the adventures of Princess, Blue Chip, Ko Ko and all the rest are brought vibrantly to the screen in this DVD release of a campy and over-the-top look at a typical night on the Hollywood Vice Squad. You know the story, Princess has a daughter who is sent away to San Diego with her rent-a-nanny while mommy turns tricks to pay for her stuffed animals. In the mean time, a friend has been pimp-sticked to death and a Vice squad officer guilts Princess into wearing a wire to entrap the psycho pimp who killed her friend. He is captured, but then escapes and goes on a hunt to get even with the bitch who entrapped him. So now the vice squad has to hunt two people instead of one, and it turns into a been there, done that day late dollar short series of misses until Ramrod and Princess meet up and she gets worked over good before Ramrod is crushed by the vice squad cops car just in the nick of time.
This movie is full of wonderful characters, Princess, Walsh, the Vice Squad cop who has a thing for her, Ko Ko the Korean hooker, Blue Chip who wears blue poker chip earings, also a hooker, a sugar pimp named Dorsey, leather guys like Fast Eddy with the mother of all tattoos, angry African-American bar patrons, a psycho garage owner named Roscoe, Mrs. Cruckshank, the owner of a motel on the strip who plays mah jong with Wong, a small "ornamental" whose diminutive stature belies a powerful martial arts background and an old rich guy who gets off on laying in a coffin while Princess in a wedding gown marches down the stairs to the mixed tuneage of the Wedding March and a funeral durge.
Great lines include:
"Blink motherf#*&er and you die in the dark" and "Not that one, the blue Ford, five-hundred don't get you no Eldorado", and my favorite, "My man will have a kilo of white stuff here before you can jump out of your leathers and spank yourself."
Well, that may be too much info, but I like the flick. It's a scream, it's campy and above all, it's out of date.
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Obscure Gem From the Eighties
Added 5/25/2007
In the eighties there were two indelible portrayals of psychotic pimps, Morgan Freeman as Fast Black in "Street Smart" and Wings Hauser as Ramrod in "Vice Squad". Unfortunate for Freeman, "Street Smart" was a rather forgettable venture but Hauser was luckier. Hauser's contribution is reason alone to see "Vice Squad" but the picture is so much more. The film works on two levels. Firstly, it's a cinema verite document of the vice scene in Hollywood. Secondly, it's a dark comedy about the proclivities of the johns that frequent the strip. A personal fave of mine is Season Hubley in Frederick's of Hollywood bridal wear to fulfill a rich john's fantasy. The film is also beautifully photographed in all it's neon decadence. I note this because some would dismiss "Vice Squad" as "B" movie fodder. The cinematographer here is John Alcott who won an Oscar lensing Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". "Vice Squad" may not be for all tastes but I thought it was great.
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WOW! Finally on DVD!
Added 1/23/2007
Back a few years ago, this movie was really hard-to-find on VHS. Anchor Bay, as always, has done a stellar job on the presentation of this movie. Everything from utilizing the original movie poster artwork for the DVD cover, to the picture quality- it's all perfect. If you like trashy, gritty, and violent movies, this movie will deliver big time. I remember it was released in 1982, but kept being brought back as an added feature at the drive-ins here in Toronto, right up until 1984. If you are a fan of early '80s movies, and with a lot of violence, but a great plotline that will keep you captivated, "Vice Squad" will not disappoint!
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