The Slams is a 1973 American action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Jim Brown.

Gene hired Kaplan on the basis of the director's handling of the black subplot in Roger Corman's The Student Teachers.

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.

[2] 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.

"[3] Critic Mike McGranaghan gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "It's everything you could ever want from a Jim Brown prison movie.