The DVD of this movie goes by the title The Boss. It has also been known as Black Bounty Hunter.
Two African American bounty hunters ride into a small town on the tail of a fugitive. On discovering that there is no sheriff, Boss Nigger assumes the role after outsmarting the cowardly white mayor .
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: Fred Williamson gives an immensely self-assured parody of the Man With No Name played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's films...
Fred Williamson (aka The Hammer) is a former American footballer who rose to fame in blaxploitation movies in the mid 1970’s (he also featured in the original Inglorious Bastards). He wrote the screenplay for Boss Nigger.
Director Jack Arnold, who made his name directing such sci-fi classics as It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man, was white.
