Avenging Disco Godfather (1976)

Smithee Award Nominations

Most Ludicrous Premise

There Are Only Two Syllables To Describe This Film, and One of Them Is "Stu"

Now that his nephew Bucky has landed in the hospital, his mind unhinged from an encounter with Angel Dust, Tucker vows to cut a swath of vengeance throughout the underworld until the perfidious PCP pushers are brought to (violent kung-fu) justice.

According to his ex-police lieutenant, there are only three things that can rile Tucker. One is to mess with his family. We never learn what the other two are.

And I guess the phone call he was about to make wasn't important, either.

"Wanna Run That By Me Again?"
I Don't Think Putting Your Heads Together Is Gonna Do Much The rally speech which states (among other things), that "we must put our heads together and fight a thing that can save the lives of thousands of our young people."

Worst Special Effect
Freeze, You Thugs! Tucker -- he's the Godfather of Bad Acting. This shows his facial expressions as some goons shoot up his disco in stop-motion.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Deus Ex Machina
Look! Down on the Ground! It's Super-Jogger! Tucker is fighting the guards outside the druglord's hideout. A passing jogger stops and asks what's going on. Tucker says, "This is an angel dust factory." "Angel dust?!" yells the jogger. He whips off his towel and suddenly becomes an expert martial artist.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

"Whoops!"

Nobody Is Going To To Watch Watch This This Film

The opening credits read: "RUDY RAY MOORE IS THE," followed by "THE AVENGING GODFATHER." Who did this? Same people who did "The The Eye Creatures," perhaps?

Must be, because in an eerily similar situation to Attack of the the Eye Creatures, all digitized instances of the double-the error seem to have been completely expunged from the internet! However, my VHS copy of the 1994 Smithee Awards is in my personal vault. And as soon as I have time to digitize it, I will post the clip.

This is a weird and disturbing trend...

Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Crummiest Ending
No, Mama, THIS Ain't Right! The baddies dose Tucker with angel dust. He has a weird-ass trip, goes nuts, and ends up strangling the main baddie. But he himself is left even more insane than usual.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Worst Acting

"Where Is Bucky, and What Has He HAD?"

Tucker is the Godfather of the Disco. While he is DJ-ing and imploring his audience to "put their weight on it," his nephew Bucky has fallen in with the wrong crowd and is O.D.ing on PCP in the parking lot. This clip shows Bucky's panicked girlfriend informing Tucker of the terrible situation.

Someone call an am-u-lance! For me.

Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Worst Picture
Geez, Put Your Weight on It, Already! The disco, when Tucker is first introduced, to the endless "He's the godfather of the disco!" He tells us to "put your weight on it."	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
J. Robert Wagoner	His only directing credit. Go figure. Wrote and directed Avenging Disco Godfather while living in a hotel. Go figure. Allegedly started in Hollywood as a cameraman by standing outside film equipment rental places. Go figure.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Rudy Ray Moore	Tucker Williams	"Dolemite" himself: Famous badass and blaxploitation legend. AKA "The Devil's Son-In-Law" and "The Human Tornado."
Carol Speed	Noel	Was the titular Abby; Mickie in The Big Bird Cage; Leslie in Black Samson; Martha in The New Centurions.
Jimmy Lynch	Sweetmeat	Comedian known as "That Funky Tramp" or "Mr. Motion," often in Rudy Ray Moore films.
Jerry Jones	Dr. Fred Mathis	In several Rudy Ray Moore flicks. Often played cops. Was Det. Green in The Long Goodbye.
Lady Reed	Mrs. Edwards	Plays Queen Bee in a couple Rudy Ray Moore movies.
Hawthorne James	Stinger Ray	Played Sam in Speed and George the Guard in Se7en.
Frank Finn	Lt. Frank Hayes	His sole credit.
Julius Carry	Bucky	Went from Bucky in Avenging Disco Godfather to a fairly prolific career, including parts on "Doctor Doctor," "The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.," "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place," and "Boy Meets World."
Howard Jackson	Special Karate Fighter	One-man film bridge between Don "The Dragon" Wilson (Bloodfist VI) and Rudy Ray Moore (Avenging Disco Godfather, The Human Tornado). Was a world karate champ, aka "The California Flash."
Keith David	Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)	This very prolific and smooth-voiced African- American acting legend has been in SO many things, good and Bad, that it's hard to choose. Probalby best known as Frank in They Live, Gen. Kimsey in Armageddon, and Childs in John Carpenter's The Thing. But his voice is probably even more well-known than his face: Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog; The President on "Rick and Morty"; and Glossaryk on "Star vs. The Forces of Evil."


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