The Dynamite Brothers

The black cat from Watts… the kung fu cat from Hong Kong

The Dynamite Brothers (1974) follows a Chinese martial-arts expert who arrives in America seeking his long-lost brother and soon finds himself reluctantly partnered with a streetwise Black fighter as they confront drug syndicates and corruption from Watts to San Francisco. As battles with crime bosses, crooked cops, and relentless henchmen escalate, their uneasy alliance is tested through violence, loyalty, and survival on the urban fringe. This action comedy blends blaxploitation grit and martial-arts spectacle in a rambunctious 1970s genre mash-up.

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  The film was announced in the trades as Black Belt Brothers, but Warner Bros. thought that sounded too much like their upcoming release Black Belt Jones, so the title was changed to The Dynamite Brothers. … When it failed to attract the shrinking kung fu crowd, [Samuel] Sherman changed the title to Stud Brown and tried to sell it as a Blaxploitation flick … Ever the pragmatist, Sherman grabbed The Dynamite Brothers at the Cinematic bankruptcy sale shortly thereafter and foisted it off on drive-in crowds as a sexploitation picture call Main Street Women.