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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Blind Rage (1978)










































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The Americans are planning to send five million dollars to Southeast Asia for relief work. They plan to send it to a bank in Manila, and the President of the bank goes to the U.S. to work out the details. He is later approached by someone who wants him to steal the money and turn it over to them. He learns that they want him to use four blind men to get the money. So he recruits them and brings them to Manila and recruits a woman who teaches the blind to train them. Eventually, they hire a local bank robber who is also blind to help them.

Black Hooker [a.k.a. Street Sisters] (1974)

















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BLACK HOOKER is a melodrama that deals with a Black country minister, his devoted wife, his wayward daughter, and his half-white grandson. The daughter leaves the child with her parents, as she goes back to living in barrooms and dirty hotels. The child longs to be accepted by his mother, even though he's smothered with his grandmother's love. As he becomes a young man, his affection for a pretty girl in the farming community ripens to love. But he unwittingly sees his self-righteous grandfather making advances to the young girl, and the shock is more than the youth can take.