FOXY BROWN
TCM, 4:15 a.m. ET
Long, long before there was Foxy Brown the rapper, there was Foxy Brown, the movie – the 1974 film starring Pam Grier in the title role. She plays the girlfriend of a federal agent killed by a kinky couple running a prostitution ring, and Foxy seeks revenge by going undercover as a prospective new employee. Grier is a powerful character here, as significant in cinema history in both gender and racial studies, and her performance here is best described as fierce. Co-stars include Antonio Fargas, who one year later moved on to the less notable role of Huggy Bear, the streetwise informant on ABC’s Starsky and Hutch.