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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Jesse Owens Story (1984)















Starring:
  • Dorian Harewood
  • Dan Ammerman
  • Bob Banks
Storyline
The life story of Jesse Owens is told in this film. He was a young African-American who would become one of the greatest modern Olympian athletes when he proved Hitler's boast about the "Aryan athletic superiority" wrong by winning four gold medals, setting world records and becoming the star of the 1936 Berlin Olympics

King Solomon's Mines (1937)















Starring:
  • Paul Robeson
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Roland Young
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Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert in hopes of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. Worried about her father, Kathy persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him. After surviving the desert they are found by natives and brought to their chief, Twala. Umbopa reveals himself to be the true heir to the tribal throne, having been exiled years earlier by Twala and the tribal witch, Gagool. Quartermain's only hope to gain access to the mines and the possible rescue of O'Brien is to try to help Umbopa regain his rightful place as chief.

Big Fella (1937)







































Starring:
Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles dockworker who is asked by police to help find a young boy missing from an ocean liner. When Joe finally discovers the child (Eldon Grant), he learns that the boy escaped of his own will, and takes him to stay with a local cafe singer, Miranda (Elisabeth Welch). Joe and Miranda become surrogate parents to the boy, offering a welcome change from his wealthy -- and somewhat repressed -- white parents.