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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Dynamite Chicken (1971)

















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A collection of skits, parodies, musical performances, and film clips relating to the peace movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies. Hosted by Richard Pryor. 

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Black Sun [Kuroi taiyô, Original Title] (1964)















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One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

Friday, October 28, 2016

Gang Smashers [a.k.a. Gun Moll] (1938)





















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Nina Mae McKinney, an undercover detective for the police, infiltrates the Dalton mob with intentions of bringing them down.