Sheba Baby

It’s late at night. A loan company vice-president named Rick is closing up shop when some thugs come along and try to destroy the loan office. What the loan shark hooligans do not know is that the president of the loan company is still in the building! He try’s to stop the damage and attacks however he is triple teamed and left for dead. They messed with the wrong person! Rick sends an urgent telegram to his the presidents daughter Shieba, , a private investigator played by Pam Grier. When Sheba gets the telegram, she heads to the airport to look into what happened and who is behind the effort to close down her dad’s business in Louisville.

After arriving in Louisville, Sheba arrives at her dad’s home and finds him bruised and battered. He pleads with Shieba not to get evolved. The next day, Sheba arrives at her father’s office to borrow his car. The phone rings and it’s the loan shark who sent in his thugs the a couple of days before. When an agreement is made to meet to discuss selling the loan business, the loan shark reviles that an object was placed on his steering wheel and was set to explode ten seconds after the car was started. Dad races out the door with Rick and pulls Shieba out of the car just in time! Now Sheba is pissed and is going to make the loan sharks pay!



Sheba finds out that a deal involving the loan sharks is going down at midnight near the railroad tracks that evening. What a perfect opportunity for Shieba to catch the bad guys in the act and take them down! In past movies, Pam was allowed to shine in her role as an independent woman who can kick ass, take names and look damn sexy doing it. In “Sheba Baby“, Pam plays her role in the style of Angie Dickson’s 1970’s television cop show “Police Woman”. Her character is restrained and he sex appeal is played down compared to “Coffy” and “Foxy Brown”. There is far less violence in this movie than her other films.

The worst possible thing that could happen takes place the next day when several white men charge into the business and begin to shoot up the business. When stray bullets strike her father down that is all it takes for Sheba to loose it and start firing her gun and spill some white boys blood for hurting her father! It’s war!!!

The movie takes a turn toward the type of stories we are used to seeing Pam in at this point. Pam uses her sexy looks and dangerous weapons to rope in the bad guys and bring them down in cold blood. The pace of the movie is slow and the story could have been told in a sixty minute television cop show instead of a full feature length movie. Pretty weak. The trailer for the movie is better than the movie itself.