Car Wash

The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, George Carlin (starring)
Joel Schumacher (screenwriter)
Michael Schultz (director)
Bill Duke, Ivan Dixon, Franklyn Ajaye, Irwin Corey

Universal City, CA: Universal Studios, 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film, showing Richard Pryor and the Pointer Sisters. Mimeo snipe on the verso.

The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work, including a Muslim revolutionary (Bill Duke), a power-hungry evangelist (Pryor) with a singing entourage (The Pointer Sisters), and a man posing a potential bomb threat (Irwin Corey). Nominated for the Palme d'Or.

Set in Los Angeles, shot on location in Los Angeles and Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Howard, Blaxploitation Cinema, p. 114.


[Book #168156]