Teams compete in games of physical strength against the Gladiators.

Bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner (Isaac Hayes) almost always finds his target, but his latest prize -- a pimp called Gator (Paul Harris) -- is killed while Turner is chasing hm. Gator's girl, Dorinda (Nichelle Nichols), vows to avenge his death and offers ownership of her successful call girl operation to anyone who can knock off Turner. Upscale pimp Harvard Blue (Yaphet Kotto) steps in, upping the ante with professional assassins. Turner, however, isn't going down easily.

The hero (Ian Hunter) and his trained baboon storm a Caribbean fortress to stop a Third World atomic-weapons deal.

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart), who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. But the police, O'Malley and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.

Working out of a diner in Long Beach, Calif., a kooky private detective (Jeff Fahey) investigates toxic-waste dumping.

An old-school trainer (Bruce McGill) takes a migrant farmworker (Kuno Becker) under his wing and hones the man's boxing skills in time for a bout with the son of a racist rancher.

Because final peace negotiations are bogged down in political maneuvering, U.S. soldiers, led by Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck), are forced to assault entrenched Chinese troops. The site of battle is Pork Chop Hill, a daunting, desolate climb that gives the communist forces a clear advantage. Clash after deadly clash wears down the morale and readiness of Clemons' men, and when they ask for back up, command is neither willing to send reinforcements nor authorize a retreat.

A bounty huntress (Sybil Danning) tracks a drug kingpin (Wings Hauser) who has kidnapped a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles.