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Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts

Sunday, July 8, 2012

If He Hollers, Let Him Go! [a.k.a. Dead Right] (1968)


















Starring:



Storyline
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques, Cotton Comes to Harlem) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tried to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel toward a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murder who framed James years before. He experiences prejudice from the police and civilians alike before the trail leads to the man who set him up. Based on the best selling novel by Chester Hines.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

For Love Of Ivy (1968)





















































Starring:

Storyline
He's a player. She's being played. Is true love in the cards? When high-rolling hustler Jack Parks (Poiter) is blackmailed into seducing a client's naive young housekeeper, love is the last thing on his mind. But Jack has never met anyone live Ivy Moore (Lincoln)...and now he's really beginning to care for her just as she discovers the truth.