Sheba, Baby (1975)

Chicago private investigator Pam Grier returns to her hometown of Louisville to help her father who is being terrorized by gangsters. I do enjoy Pam Grier-led blaxploitation and she brings the sass as always, but this isn’t one of my favorites. It follows the general formula of Grier having to work her way to the top of a criminal conspiracy, but it does so in such a plodding way that the stakes never feel very high or exciting. The only things it has going for it beyond Pam are a chase in an amusement park, which always offers clever bits, and a climax involving jet skis and speedboats.