Wow! Such a good movie.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Disco Godfather (1979) * (out of 4) Tucker Williams (Rudy Ray Moore) was a former cop who now works as the Blueberry Hill club where he is known as the Disco Godfather. Life is great until one day his nephew comes into the club strung out on Angel Dust. Williams decides to start his own investigation into who is making it and he will stop at nothing to bring them down.DISCO GODFATHER was the fourth and final film from Rudy Ray Moore in the 1970s. If you've seen his four movies then you know they're all rather wild and over-the-top but there's no question that this here is the worst. Even the actor admitted that this pretty much killed his career and it really didn't help that they tried to take his R-rated material and push it down to a PG, which is what this film did.I'm really not sure why they decided to change things up so much here but it really doesn't work because we're missing out on those classic Rudy Ray Moore jokes. Some of the best parts of films like DOLEMITE and THE HUMAN TORNADO were the actor just playing a comic and going off cracking jokes. What does work here is Moore's performance, which is actually pretty good since he plays everything rather straight. This here is basically a drama about the abuse of drugs in the black community and it certainly beats the viewer over the head with its message.The problem is that the film is downright boring throughout. The direction is pretty bad, most of the supporting performances are really bad and there's just nothing here that scream out being good. The only thing that really saves this from becoming a complete BOMB was the performance by Moore plus some really strange and bizarre horror elements dealing with the Angel Dust. There are several scenes here where we see what a bad trip is like and we're given these bizarre sequences with voodoo plus a mixture of a zombie or vampire type creature. These trips scenes are a real hoot and almost make the film worth sitting through.

I thought I'd spoke on this good-bad film, but I guess it didn't take This is set during the PCP craze that rocked black neighborhoods in the mid-1970s. Then folks started freebasing and you stopped hearing about "Sherm" Alley. It became "Crack Alley." If you don't think this place existed, I can take you... This picture is low end for sure but there is a sincerity in it's message. A decade later, Spike Lee tried to say something about the crack epidemic, but didn't fair quite as well. What was Jungle Fever about when you think about it. The social milieu of Disco Godfather is rooted in genre(the detective story.) Maybe that's why it succeeds where others failed. I don't know... there was more heart here than in many a modern black film. and the karate sequence! what the--

A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco -- he is the Disco Godfather! All is well until his nephew flips out on a strange new drug that is sweeping the streets, called "angel dust" or PCP.What the heck is this? A disco movie? A drug movie? A police movie? I have no idea, and it seems that nobody else does either. And yet, it works... goodness gracious, it works. This is one crazy film and anyone who is into b-movies or cult films is sure to enjoy it.I do not know much about PCP, but the effects it has on the people in this movie definitely make me want to stay away. These same effects might cause other people to seek the drug out. More than 30 different analogues of PCP were reported as being used on the street during the 1970s and 1980s, though, so who knows what you might be getting.

this is hands down the funniest rudy ray moore movie! the only draw back is the sound quality, which i had hoped would be improved with the dvd release but is not-i thought my t.v. was broke when i first saw it! this movie has the best(worst) lines, best(worst) fight choreography, and the best(you know) plot. i forgot to say the best acting, but you can only imagine. the story is funny in a way no story about drug addiction could ever be. the scenes at the hospital with the people freaked out on angel dust are great, (SPOILER) especially the girl cooking her baby thinking it's the x-mas ham! priceless. i still pull this one out from time to time and laugh my ass off! i have got to say that the disco g.f.'s fighting is also one of the greatest things ever put on film. buy this one, it's cheap, and watch it a thousand times.