Get Christie Love!
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| Get Christie Love! | |
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| Directed by | William A. Graham |
| Produced by | Peter Nelson Lawrence Turman |
| Written by | Dorothy Uhnak (novel) George Kirgo (teleplay) |
| Starring | Teresa Graves Harry Guardino Louise Sorel |
| Distributed by | ABC (Television) |
| Release date(s) | January 22, 1974 |
| Running time | 74 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | (unknown) |
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Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on two crime-thriller novels written by Dorothy Uhnak. However, the main character "Christie Opara" -- a white, New York Police detective -- was dropped completely and "Christie Love" is who emerged.
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[edit] Synopsis
The film was an imitation of the 1970s heroine blaxploitation films such as Tamara Dobson's Cleopatra Jones (1973), and Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). The film's success spawned a short-lived television series on the ABC network featuring Charles Cioffi as Love's supervisor Matt Reardon and Jack Kelly as Lt. Ryan, the next supervisor. However, the series, financed on a meager budget and heavily sanitized to conform to network standards, was eventually cancelled. However, one memorable episode was widely watched that featured many of Teresa Graves' former Laugh-In co-stars like Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley and Arte Johnson in particular playing a mad bomber. Get Christie Love! was known for being more progressive in its depiction of female characters than other 70s TV shows featuring female cops, such as Police Woman, notorious for portraying its star Angie Dickinson as a damsel in distress.
[edit] Cast
- Teresa Graves — Christie Love
- Harry Guardino — Captain Casey Reardon
- Louise Sorel — Helena Varga
- Paul Stevens — Enzo Cortino
- Ron Rifkin — Normand
- Lynne Holmes — Celia Jackson
- Lee Paul — Max Loomis
- Titos Vandis — Spiliolis
- Tracey Roberts — Gwen Fenley
- William Hansen — Dr. Shepard
- Andy Romano — Sergeant Seymour Greenberg
- Davis Roberts — Myron Jones
- Bill Henderson — Sergeant Stoner Martin
- Deborah Dozier — Amy
- Darleen Conley — Virginia
[edit] Cultural references
- In a famous scene in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs, the characters Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), and "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot (Chris Penn), engage in a brief discussion regarding Get Christie Love!.
