Detroit 9000
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Arthur Marks
Scatman Crothers
John Nichols
Richard Boutin
Bob Charlton
Jason Summers
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Congressman Aubrey Hale Clayton is Michigan's first Black Gubernatorial Candidate and his political organization holds a gala fund-raising affair at the elegant and once lily-white Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. There's only one complication... It all happens in less than ten minutes. A well rehearsed team of masked robbers quickly burst Clayton's political bubble and split without the decency of leaving a single clue. The newspapers swell with accounts of a governmental scandal of mini-Watergate proportions; media can always find room for another double-cross. Clayton angrily asserts that the robery was engineered by whites solely to keep him from the Governor's mansion and demands a complete investigation.
Director
Arthur Marks
Cast
Scatman Crothers
John Nichols
Richard Boutin
Bob Charlton
Jason Summers
Ron Mcilwain
Herb Weatherspoon
Don Hayes
Dilart Heyson
Alex Rocco
Doris Ingraham
June Fairchild
Martha Jean Steinber
Ron Khoury
George Skaff
Whit Vernon
Ella Edwards
Woody Willis
Jerry Dahlman
Ernie Winstanley
Michael Tylo
Hari Rhodes
Davis Roberts
Sally Baker
Rudy Challenger
Herbert Jefferson
Vonetta Mcgee
Crew
Luchi De Jesus
Lamont Dozier
Donald Gottlieb
Junius Griffin
Orville Hampton
Orville Hampton
Brian Holland
Eddie Holland
Arthur Marks
Arthur Marks
Harry May
William Silberkleit
Charles Stroud
Quentin Tarantino
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
John Nichols was the actual chief of the Detroit Police at the time of his appearance in the movie. No doubt he hoped his appearance in the film would help his 1973 campaign for mayor. He lost to Coleman Young, however, and later went on to become sheriff of suburban Oakland County.
"9000" is the Detroit Police radio code for "officer down."
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video April 13, 1999
Released in United States Summer August 1973
Re-released in United States October 9, 1998
Formerly distributed by General Film.
Rolling Thunder is Quentin Tarrantino's production company.
Released in United States on Video April 13, 1999
Released in United States Summer August 1973
Re-released in United States October 9, 1998 (New York City and Los Angeles)
