They don't make them any better than this. A big African American dude (Rosey Grier, before that PC term) wears a riot glove that was used on him by brutal prison guards (including first revenge target Aldo Ray) and donning the glove kills all the guards one-by-one...
But the main character isn't Grier but John Saxon, as a narrating bounty hunter who hunts him down as most of the film consists of Saxon's adventures: going after various criminals... which then leads to the climax verses Grier, who really isn't a bad guy and can play the guitar really, really good.
THE GLOVE feels a lot like McQueen's THE HUNTER. All in all there's never a dull moment. This is modern noir mixed with blaxpolotation-style casting, racial pathos and violent melodrama and in a nutshell, everything fits like a...
But the main character isn't Grier but John Saxon, as a narrating bounty hunter who hunts him down as most of the film consists of Saxon's adventures: going after various criminals... which then leads to the climax verses Grier, who really isn't a bad guy and can play the guitar really, really good.
THE GLOVE feels a lot like McQueen's THE HUNTER. All in all there's never a dull moment. This is modern noir mixed with blaxpolotation-style casting, racial pathos and violent melodrama and in a nutshell, everything fits like a...