Retro Black Film From The Past

02/16/2023

12/03/2022

Devil in a Blue Dress
R 1995 ‧ Mystery/Crime ‧ 1h 42m
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore), a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Release date: September 29, 1995 (USA)
Director: Carl Franklin
Screenplay: Carl Franklin
Awards: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, More
Story by: Walter Mosley
Adapted from: Devil in a Blue Dress

11/30/2022

In the early 1960s, infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson returns from 10 years in prison to find the neighbourhood he once ruled in shambles; with the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control.
Program creators: Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein
Genre: Crime film
First episode date: September 29, 2019
Network: Epix
Executive producers: James Acheson, Forest Whitaker, Markuann Smith
Opening theme: "Just In Case" by Swizz Beatz
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Godfather of Harlem
2019 ‧ Crime ‧ 3 seasons

11/26/2022

😂Epic scene of don't be a menace in south central while drinking

11/17/2022

🎲The Time Sugar Asked Bumpy For A Favor

11/11/2022

The Temptations
1998 ‧ Drama

The Temptations is a four-hour television miniseries broadcast in two-hour halves on NBC, based upon the history of one of Motown's longest-lived acts, The Temptations. Wikipedia
Awards: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, More
Directed by: Allan Arkush
Distributor: Hallmark Entertainment; Lions Gate (2001 home video); Vivendi Entertainment (2001 home video)
Genre: Miniseries
Original network: NBC


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11/05/2022

One of Denzel Washington’s most

IConic Line “ Get Yo F’N Hands Off Me”
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PG 1984 ‧ Mystery/Drama ‧ 1h 41m

A black Army investigator (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) travels to a remote military base in the heart of the Louisiana backwoods to look into the mysterious murder of a black sergeant toward the tail end of World War II. Once he arrives, the investigator discovers an Army regiment and an entire community that, despite the beginnings of integration, is still torn apart by race and segregation. He soon learns that on this base, trust is sparse and secrets are a currency all their own.

🗓Release date: September 14, 1984 (New York)

🎥Director: Norman Jewison

🏆Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, More

📝Screenplay: Charles Fuller

🚛Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

🎬Adapted from: A Soldier's Play

10/25/2022

“Greatest Fighting Scene Ever 😳”

🎥 Three the Hard Way
-R 1974 ‧ Action/Blaxploitation ‧ 1h 45m

CLIP DESCRIPTION: Mister Keyes (Jim Kelly) vs. Racist Police "Gonna set ME up?"

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A record producer (Jim Brown), a PR man (Fred Williamson) and a black belt (Jim Kelly) in karate foil a racist plot to poison part of a city.

Release date: June 26, 1974 (USA)
Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
Producer: Harry Bernsen
Screenplay: Eric Bercovici, Jerrold L. Ludwig
Distributed by: Monogram Pictures
Music by: The Impressions

10/25/2022

🎥 Truck Turner

-R 1974 ‧ Action/Crime ‧ 1h 31m

✨Clip Description: You Been Hit by a Truck Scene:

Truck (Isaac Hayes) and Jerry (Alan Weeks) wreak havoc in a bar.

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Bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner (Isaac Hayes) almost always finds his target, but his latest prize -- a pimp called Gator (Paul Harris) -- is killed while Turner is chasing hm. Gator's girl, Dorinda (Nichelle Nichols), vows to avenge his death and offers ownership of her successful call girl opera… More
Release date: June 26, 1974 (San Francisco)
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Screenplay: Oscar Williams, Leigh Chapman, Michael Allin
Distributed by: American International Pictures
Based on: story by Jerry Wilkes
Box office: $2.23 million

10/25/2022

🎞Foxy Brown

🎥- Here's Some Gasoline Scene
* CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Foxy (Pam Grier) pays back the rednecks who
imprisoned and sexually assaulted her.
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R 1974 • Crime/Blaxploitation

Unable to pay back the $20,000 he owes the mob, small-time hustler Link (Antonio Fargas) instead gives up the identity of an undercover cop (Terry Carter) who happens to be dating his sister, Foxy Brown (Pam Grier). When gangsters later kill the cop, Foxy is quick to make the connection and swears vengeance. Posing as a pr******te, and with the help of a group of neighborhood vigilantes, she gradually tracks down the hit men, their Mafia bosses and her own brother.

Release date: April 5, 1974 (USA)
Director: Jack Hill
Distributed by: American International Pictures
Box office: $2.46 million
Budget: $500,000
Music by: Willie Hutch

10/20/2022

😂Redd Foxx - “Wash Your Ass”

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