Fred Williamson stars as Duke Johnson, a former black activist who arrives in Bucktown to bury his brother, a bar owner who was killed for refusing to pay crooked white cops for protection.

[1] The film's score was written by Johnny Pate, and its main theme sung by Luther Rabb.

[2] The New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby gave the film a negative review, calling it "really bad" and "both silly and vicious," though he praised the performances of Williamson and Grier, saying the two "display enough of their own private wit to save the movie from seeming to be quite the mess it is.

He claimed, "it made back its initial cost very quickly, and played every inner-city in the North.

It was making --playing the State Lake Theater in Chicago-- at [sic] $60,000 and 70,000 a week."