Brotherhood of Death is a low-budget 1976 action film in the blaxploitation genre, directed by Richard F. Barker and Bill Berry, and starring Roy Jefferson, Le Tari, and Haskell Anderson. The film featured appearances by several members, including Jefferson, of the Washington Redskins professional football team of the National Football League. Plot In the mid-to-late 1960s, three young men leave their small Southern hometown to join the United States Army and fight in the Vietnam War. Upon their return home, they take up the cause of battling the racial injustices prevalent in the town. When the town's Ku Klux Klan members offer a murderously violent reaction to their efforts, the trio uses the lessons they learned in the army, fighting the Vietcong, to conduct an all-out war against the Klan. Cast Roy Jefferson as Raymond Moffat Le Tari as Ned Tiese Haskell Anderson as Junior Moffat Mike Thomas as Newton "Newt" Biggars Mick Hodge as "Ace" Ron David as Leroy Winniford Rick Ellis as Harold Turner Brian Donohue as Deputy Myrick Ed Heath as Preacher Mike Bass as Captain Quinn Bryan Clark as Sheriff Kandy Hooker as Louise Freeman Mark Robinson as Dope Dealer Soldier Vacountess E. Payne as Rose Jon Feather as Army Instructor Holly Hjretberg as Leroy's Girlfriend Barbara Cherry as Raymond's Girlfriend Production The film was the brainchild of its executive producer, Ronald K. Goldman, a Washington, D.C. native and a veteran of blaxploitation film production. Guided by his previous experiences, Goldman devised a plan to make a film with a very low budget, to be produced entirely outside of the Hollywood establishment, and which he felt highly confident would still prove to be profitable. Specifically, Goldman had deemed the quality of the acting in blaxploitation films to be unimpressive, even in those films which had been financially successful. Reasoning that even untrained actors could provide performances of similar quality, Goldman leveraged the fact that he knew some members of the Washington Redskins football team and convinced them to appear in his film. He thus gained some marquee value from their sports celebrity status without having to pay the higher salaries that would have been required to employ experienced actors who would have generated a similar level of public interest. Goldman saved additional money by hiring a first-time director and having nearly the entire film shot in Montgomery County, near Washington. One exception was an actual Ku