Joyce Walker. Willie Dynamite (1974) The main venue for Willie's stable of seven sex trade workers is a hotel hosting the Business International Association, whose conventioneers are seen in the opening title sequence — and throughout the film — wearing orange fezzes with a blue tassel and an emblem of a buffalo. The conventioneers also feature prominently in the promotional trailer. Although obviously styled after the Shriner's distinctive headwear, this use of the fez is a common stereotype, or trope, for party-hearty conventioneers, similar to another trope in this and many films of the 1960s and 1970s: plainclothes police officers identified by their wearing of trilbies or fedoras, decades after such attire fell out of fashion in the real world. Willie Dynamite (1974). Directed by Gilbert Moses, written by Ron Cutler. Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker, Roger Robinson, George Murdock, Albert Hall, Norma Donaldson, Juanita Brown, Royce Wallace, Judith Brown, Marilyn Coleman, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Marcia McBroom, Jack Bernardi. USA, English, 102 min, Mono, Technicolor. THE FEZ

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