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Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2016

The Glove (1979)
















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Sam Kellog (John Saxon) is a modern-day bounty hunter in Los Angeles who decides to track down Victor Hale (Rosey Grier), a vicious, heavy-set ex-convict with a $20,000 bounty on his head, who is killing former prison guards with a leather-laced steel glove in revenge for them beating him with the same instrument while he was imprisoned.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Hollow Image (1979, TV Movie)















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A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979, TV Movie)















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Mick Jade, a former tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory, in which the trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hit-men as she heads for Washington D.C. from the Middle East with her super-secret formulas. 

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Fuego Negro [a.k.a. Black Fire] (1979)



















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In a small country in South America, where despite it abolition, slavery still exists. A rebel take advantage of a voodoo ceremony to arouse the Black slaves. A violent struggle between them and the cruel overseer of a hacienda (plantation) serves as a backdrop to the tragic love of a slave and a rich white heiress.