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Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts

Friday, December 9, 2016

The Manhandlers (1974)


















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A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished. 

Monday, November 14, 2016

The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974, Broadway Theater)














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Set in Chicago in the early nineteen‐sixties, the story focuses on the push‐pull relationship between an elderly, domineering mother and her aging, repressed and lonely daughter. As the two characters circle each other in their tight little world of bitterness and love, a blind street singer, looking for a woman he had loved years ago, stumbles into their ghetto apartment and precipitates a confrontation between the two women and with themselves.

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Negro es un Bello Color [a.k.a. Black Is A Beautiful Color] (1974)

























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A young couple in love, challenging family and society, in an era where class and race differences were not accepted. Starring Jeannie Bell from T.N.T. Jackson and The Muthers.