Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold is a 1975 American action-adventure film directed by Charles Bail and starring Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra "Cleo" Jones, Stella Stevens, and Norman Fell. The film is a sequel to the 1973 action film Cleopatra Jones.
The story begins with two government agents, Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson, being captured by the "Dragon Lady" (Stella Stevens). Cleopatra Jones then travels to Hong Kong to rescue the agents. Jones pairs up with Mi Lin-fong () and ends up in the Dragon Lady's casino, which, in actuality, is the headquarters for her underground drug empire. Jones and Mi use their combat skills to battle the Dragon Lady's henchmen and rescue the agents.
Max Julien, author of the source story for and a co-producer of the film's predecessor Cleopatra Jones, refused to participate in the production, and instead got token credit for the story and script having been "based on characters created by" him.
J. J. Johnson produced the soundtrack for the movie; using oriental music with jazz, bass and strings to "invoke an exotic aura." Tamara Dobson, who was 6 feet 2 inches tall, was certified the tallest leading lady in film by the Guinness Book of World Records when she portrayed the character, Cleopatra Jones, in both films.
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote "there's an incredible variety of action, none of it too gruesomely explicit, and Cleo finds time between machine gun bursts to warn one of the kids that he's no Evel Knievel. She's no James Bond, either, but the movie's not bad in a silly sort of way.
Verina glaesner of the Monthly Film Bulletin stated, "with little to do between shoot-outs and bouts of martial-arts action, the title character is effectively reduced to a joke." Film critic Vincent Canby wrote, "it is a trashy black exploitation movie that denies the large, beautiful, and overwhelming presence of Miss Dobson, whose real sexuality is denied by her movie costumes that seem to have been designed by a female impersonator."
Sight and Sound opined that "blaxploitation meets martial arts in this lively romp; Dobson shows poise and bad attitude aplenty; her freewheeling approach to police work exasperates her bosses, but sure enough the villains all get their comeuppance by the final reel; Run Run Shaw produced the pic so it's little surprise that the fight sequences are so nifty."
The film was released on VHS by Warner Home Video in October 1987, as part of their "Walking Weapons Trio" series, which also included Lethal Weapon and Enter the Dragon. The movie was then released to DVD in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Warner Home Video, and again by Warner Brothers as part of its Warner Archive Collection in 2010.