Review: Black Snake
Set in the 1800s in the West Indies on a plantation owned by whip-cracking Lady Susan Walker (Anoushka Hempel), a brutal tyrant ably assisted by the brutish Joxer (Percy Herbert). David Warbeck plays an Englishman who arrives to enquire on the whereabouts of his brother, Lady Susan’s husband who is missing. Character actor Anthony Sharp (in perhaps the most decent performance here) plays Lord Clive, whilst stunt man Bob Minor plays one of the slaves, and an American actor named Bernard Boston plays the snooty, gay, French soldier whom Lady Susan employs as the captain of her private army of mercenaries. The hulking David Prowse turns up in a small role that you can probably figure out the identity of yourself. There were a couple of times in his career that former ‘nudie cutie’ director Russ Meyer ( “Vixen” , “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” ) attempted to make somewhat ‘serious’ films, “The Seven Minutes” (a PG-rated Russ Meyer film!) being one of them. This 1973 slavery-th...