''Welcome Home Brother Charles'' (also known as ''Soul Vengeance'') is a 1975 American

blaxploitation film In American cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the black civil rights movement, the black power movement, a ...

written and directed by Jamaa Fanaka. The film stars Marlo Monte as a wrongfully imprisoned man who seeks vengeance upon his transgressors using his prehensile penis. The film, which was shot on weekends over the course of seven months, was completed while Fanaka was a student of UCLA Film School.

Cast

* Marlo Monte as Charles Murray * Reatha Grey as Carmen * Stan Kamber as Jim * Tiffany Peters as Christina Freeman * Ben Bigelow as Harry Freeman * Jake Carter as N.D. * Jackie Ziegler as Twyla * Ed Sander as Judge * Teri Hayden as Judge's Wife * Stephen Schenck as The Prosecutor * Kamala James as Prosecutor's Wife

Home media

In 2018, the film was restored in 2K and released on

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and

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as a

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with the film '' Emma Mae''.

References

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External links

* * {{Jamaa Fanaka 1970s exploitation films Blaxploitation films American exploitation films Films directed by Jamaa Fanaka 1970s English-language films 1970s American films