Hello, my name's Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today we're talking about Rudy Ray Moore.

Dolomite is his name. Fucking up motherfuckers is his game.

So Rudy Ray Moore is an actor, comedian who's most famous for four motion pictures.

Dolomite, the human tornado, Pedy Wheatstraw, the devil's son-in-law, and disco godfather.

Rudy Ray Moore was the clown prince of black exploitation, I think it's fair to say.

His period of glory may have been brief, but it resonates even today where, as we speak,

a biopic starring Eddie Murphy is being shot about his life.

And that's actually what prompted me to go, all right, let's do an episode about him,

because Rudy Ray Moore is one of those figures that, like, I knew a lot about, but I had maybe

seen only one of his movies, which is

weird because like when you get into cult films, he's a character that you see on like

the cover of all the books. He's like the go-to. And I had actually never seen the film.

Really? Yeah. Had you before? I'd seen Dolomite before and I had seen the human tornado before.

But this week I watched all four of them and it just felt really like being immersed in this

crazy world.

I mean, they were just re-released by Vinegar Syndrome and criterion level like discs where

they're special features.

They look amazing. And the fact that they're actually

in their original aspect ratio makes a big difference, but we'll get to that. So how did Rudy

Rameur get to making these movies? Well, he was a comedian first and foremost, and he was a

comedian that was known for Working Blue. He had a number of albums, I believe one of them is called Eat Out More Often, which actually hit the top 25 on the

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