Showdown L.A. (alternatively titled as Showdown: LA or as Showdown Los Angeles in overseas markets) is a 1975 American dark comedy film meant to satirize the exploitation, specifically blaxploitation, genres prevalent at the time. The film was directed by George Deacon and starred Jack Germaine as the alcoholic, gritty and tough-as-nails Narcotics Lieutenant Jack "Toots" Markane, and also starred B-movie kung-fu star Kim Jong as the high-strung, over-caffeinated and hotheaded Constable Johnnie Lee and then-unknown Jeff Bright as clumsily naive rookie cop Billy Nelson. The three radically different cops are thrown together onto a gang taskforce in 1969 Los Angeles to prevent a potentially race-riot inspiring showdown between a black gang and a Latino gang over a failed drug shipment.