Editing Rudy Ray Moore (section)

===''Dolemite'' movie and later success===
[[File:RudyRayMoore 12062007.JPG|right|thumb|{{center|Moore in 2007}}]]

Moore spent most of his earnings from the records to finance the movie ''[[Dolemite]]'', which started filming in January, 1974. It was released and distributed nationally beginning in April 1975, and has been described as "one of the great [[blaxploitation]] movies" of the 1970s.<ref name=ALLMUSIC/><ref name=chicago/> The character was "the ultimate ghetto hero: a bad dude, profane, skilled at kung-fu, dressed to kill and hell-bent on protecting the community from evil menaces. He was a pimp with a [[Kung fu (term)|kung-fu-fighting]] [[clique]] of prostitutes and he was known for his sexual prowess."<ref name=latimes/>

The film was successful and was followed by ''[[The Human Tornado]]'', ''[[The Monkey Hustle]]'', and ''[[Petey Wheatstraw (film)|Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law]]''. Moore continued to release albums that appealed to his enduring fanbase through the 1970s and 1980s, but little of his work reached a white audience. His "rapid-fire rhyming salaciousness exceeded the wildest excesses" of Foxx and Pryor,<ref name=NYT/> and his highly explicit style kept him off television and major films.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" /><ref name=latimes/> At the same time, Moore often spoke in his church and regularly took his mother to the [[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|National Baptist Convention]]. He said that: "I wasn't saying dirty words just to say them... It was a form of art, sketches in which I developed ghetto characters who cursed. I don't want to be referred to as a dirty old man, rather a ghetto expressionist."<ref name=latimes/>