Movie: TNT Jackson by Cirio Santiago
Usage Clips from movie: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/TNTJackson

Photo credit: qthomasbower from flickr
https://flic.kr/p/boZQtd
Usage: CC BY-SA 2.0

Song: I Learned From the Best
Song by: Whitney Houston
Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles


Today’s topic: Whitney Houston and the character TNT Jackson.

Whitney could have played many female characters. She had personality. Whitney Houston was heading more for movies in her singing career. Her first movie was the Bodyguard in 1992. It was a box office hit. Whitney always looked like an action film kind of woman to me. I think it would have been exciting to see Whitney in a Kung Fu kind of film. She probably would have had to take some Kung Fu lessons which I believe would have been good to learn because Kung Fu isn’t just about fighting. It teaches self discipline. And maybe Whitney could have done a remake of the TNT Jackson movie starring Jeanne Bell.

The film is about Diana Jackson (aka TNT) who learns her brother is missing. She suspects a powerful gangster and his friends are behind the disappearance. Determined to get at the truth, she goes to Hong Kong, and along with a friend named Joe, wages was on the criminal gang she’s out to nail.

In real life, it is said that Whitney Houston knew how to fight. If she had played the role of TNT Jackson, she would have known what it was like to have a brother because she had two. And she would have known something about fighting.

In real life, Whitney Houston knew about business, and she knew how dirty it could be. In the film TNT Jackson, she probably wouldn’t have had any problems acting out some of the parts.

Like TNT, Whitney would let you know what she was about. And sometimes very frank. The character TNT Jackson was angry and went after the smooth talking bad guy that you just heard in the clip.

Whitney Houston knew all about men too. The bad guy in film is actor Stan Shaw playing as Charlie.

Whitney would have gotten a lot of exercise if she had played in a Kung Fu film. T and Charlie fought up and down a staircase. There was blood and lots of kicking and rolling on the floor. TNT Jackson is a1974 Blaxploitation.

Well, T fought Charlie and killed him. He fell to the floor and laid still and his vision became blurred. TNT Jackson stood over him starring and that was the end of the movie.

(Singing I Learned From the Best)
“ Baby I learned the way to break a heart .
I learned from the best.
I learned …
I learned from you.”

If Whitney Houston would have done the remake of TNT Jackson, I’m sure there would have been a more up to date version. Who knows, it might would have been a bigger hit if Whitney had remade the film. On top of that, Whitney was already a star. She was every woman with the big hair do’s and the small ones. I loved her big Afro in her video “I Learned From the Best”. I Learned From the Best is a song that might would have played at the end of a film like TNT Jackson.

I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to the Whitney Soul Podcast. Today’s topic: WH and the Character TNT Jackson