Storyline In Africa, a hunter kills a great lion. The animal turns out to be
sacred to a local tribe of voodoo worshipers, and when the hunter
returns to England, he finds himself seeing strange apparitions
involving the lion and murderous jungle warriors.
Storyline Voter registration leads to Murder in Mississippi when a "cracker"
Sheriff arrests white dilettante Carol Byrd and two other "Communist
Yankees" for "agitating colored folks." Though her friends are killed,
Carol is kept alive as the personal sex slave of two white-trash cretins
in this nasty lesson in racial intolerance from the director of Olga's
House of Shame. The 1964 murders of three civil-rights workers so
appalled the nation that Hollywood waited 24 years before tackling the
subject with 1988's Mississippi Burning. Not so with this
eager-to-offend exploitation gem, loosely based on the killings and
geared for the grindhouse crowd, which remains profoundly disturbing
today.
Storyline Making his only major film appearance, legendary soul singer, musician
and composer Ray Charles helps transform the lives of a blind boy and
his widowed mother in this poignant, uplifting film drama set in
mid-1960s London. Presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from
the original film elements showing the maximum filmed picture area, Ballad in Blue sees Charles who had lost his sight completely by the age of eight performing some of his best-loved songs, including I Got a Woman, Hit the Road, Jack and Busted.
During
a performance for blind children, global star Ray Charles befriends
David, a young boy who has recently lost his sight, and tries to help
him come to terms with his condition. Then, during a world tour, Charles
finds himself in Paris, where a surgeon is pioneering a radical
procedure that could restore David's sight; he sets out not only to
convince David's over-protective mother to allow her son to undergo the
surgery, but also to reconcile her with her boyfriend, a struggling
composer who seeks solace in alcohol.