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Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Leadbelly (1976)


















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The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there. 

Monday, September 29, 2008

Sugar Hill (1974)























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When her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD! She entreats voodoo queen Mama Maitresse to call on Baron Samedi, Lord of the Dead, for help with a gruesome revenge. In exchange for Sugar's soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who think they got away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong. 

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Together Brothers (1974)































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Galveston Texas. There was a murdered police officer, and the only witness was a five-year-old boy who has been traumatized and struck mute by the experience. The boy's older brother is the leader of the Together Brothers, a gang of black and Chicano teens, and they vow to find the killer while also protecting the boy from retribution.