The Racism?
Just finished watching this film and have to say I thought it was decent.
However there was one scene that stopped me from fully enjoying it and left a sour taste and I just wanted to see if anyone else noticed it.
It was during the scene between Ginley and the girls black bodyguard when he returns home to find him in his flat.
Ginley calls him 'Mighty Joe Young' asks him 'When did you come down from the trees' and tells him to 'get back to his banana's'. Ginley also refers to him later as 'King Kong.'
Yes I know it was 1971 and times were different but it still didn't sit right with me.
Seems like the scriptwriter was trying to pass off racist remarks as noir-esque wisecracks and it seemed to spoil my enjoyment of the rest of the film, anyone else feel the same?