Friday's Ghost (1980's)

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Starring:

• Hector Mathanda
• Roy Dlamini
• Dumi Shongwe
• Pepsi Mabiza
• Thabi Makhathini

Storyline
It’s been three months since Simon’s father passed away and to date his house has been left abandoned. Simon and Friday arrive one day to find their friend, Ntombi, waiting for them. The trio enter the house to do an inspection, and Friday soon becomes convinced the place is haunted, refusing to be left alone at any time. Simon, not sharing Friday’s supernatural suspicions, finds his friend’s nervousness amusing. That night, however, Friday becomes even more convinced the house is haunted when he believes he sees a ghost in the middle of the night.

The plot thickens when Raufus, a local thug wanting Ntombi’s hand in marriage, sets his sights on owning Simon’s father’s farm, claiming he is owed money by the deceased father. But Simon has no intention of letting his father’s land go.

My Sweet Charlie (1970, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Al Freeman Jr. 
• Patty Duke
• Ford Rainey

Storyline
An unmarried pregnant Southern girl, Marlene, (Patty Duke) has run away from home and has taken refuge at an abandon house on the Texas Coast. While dwelling, a black lawyer, Charles (Al Freeman Jr.), who has killed a white man in self-defense and is on the run, has decided to hide in the same abandoned house. Brought together by fate, the two dwellers realize their differences are not so different and an unlikely friends occurs. However, they can not run from their troubled past and the two have to face their truths. Based on the novel by David Westheimer.

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Ruby Dee
• Al Freeman Jr. 
• Lauren Jones 
• Claudia McNeil 
• Barbara Barrie 
• Roy Scheider 
• Blythe Danner 

Storyline
When "A Raisin in the Sun" opened on Broadway, the world of literature had found an exciting new voice. In her words, her letters, poems, diaries and plays, there is a uniquely gifted vision of one who left us so young, yet left us so enriched. This is the portrait of Lorraine Hansberry.