{{Short description|1973 film by Jonathan Kaplan}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = The Slams | image = The_Slams.jpg | caption = Film poster by John Solie | director = Jonathan Kaplan | producer = Gene Corman | writer = Richard DeLong Adams | starring = Jim Brown | music = Luther Henderson | cinematography = Andrew Davis | editing = Morton Tubor | studio = Penelope Productions | distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | released = {{Film date|1973|09|26}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Slams''''' is a 1973 American action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Jim Brown.
==Plot== Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police after a heist. In jail, Curtis has to deal with people who want to know where he stashed the loot while also trying to get out of jail in time to get the money before its hiding place is demolished.
==Cast== * Jim Brown as Curtis X. Hook * Judy Pace as Iris Daniels * Roland Bob Harris as Captain Stambell (credited as Roland 'Bob' Harris) * Paul Harris as Jackson Barney (credited as Paul E. Harris) * Frank DeKova as Capiello * Ted Cassidy as Glover * Frenchia Guizon as Macey * John Dennis as Sergeant Morella / Flood * Jac Emel as Zack * Quinn K. Redeker as The Warden (credited as Quinn Redeker)
==Tagline== JIM BROWN goes over the wall to flash with a million $ stash.
==Production== The film was produced by Gene Corman, brother of famous B-movie producer Roger Corman. Gene hired Kaplan on the basis of the director's handling of the black subplot in Roger Corman's ''The Student Teachers''. The only requirement was that Kaplan meet with Jim Brown. "I found him to be quite sweet, quite charming," says Kaplan.<ref name="trailers">[http://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/960 Jonathan Kaplan on ''The Slams''] at Trailers From Hell</ref>
Kaplan found Gene Corman a far more hands on producer than his brother, casting the movie and using his own editor. The film was shot on location mostly at Lincoln Heights Prison in Los Angeles.<ref name="trailers"/>
Brown wanted to fight someone bigger than him in a fight scene so Ted Cassidy was cast. Kaplan said he found the way to keep Brown engaged in the movie was to get him involved in some sort of competition, so he organised people to play chess with him in between takes.<ref name="trailers"/>
"We got along because I treated him like an actor, not like an ex-football player," said Kaplan.<ref name="sight">{{cite magazine|last=Taylor|first=Paul|title=Keep on Truckin' - Jonathan Kaplan|magazine=Monthly Film Bulletin|edition=56.661|date=1 Feb 1989}}</ref>
==Reception== Dennis Schwartz gave it a C+ and said the film "Aims to prove that blacks like whites can also play amoral criminal hero roles with a straight face and a smirk."<ref>{{cite web |date=2012 |author=Dennis Schwartz |author-link=Dennis Schwartz |title=SLAMS, THE – Dennis Schwartz Reviews |url=https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/slams/ }}</ref> Critic Mike McGranaghan gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "It's everything you could ever want from a Jim Brown prison movie."<ref>{{cite web |title=The Aisle Seat - The Slams |url=https://aisleseat.com/theslams.htm |website=aisleseat.com}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0070704}}
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