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Sunday, July 8, 2012

If He Hollers, Let Him Go! [a.k.a. Dead Right] (1968)


















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James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques, Cotton Comes to Harlem) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tried to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel toward a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murder who framed James years before. He experiences prejudice from the police and civilians alike before the trail leads to the man who set him up. Based on the best selling novel by Chester Hines.

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.