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Monday, July 16, 2012

Speeding Up Time (1971)
















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The Black Panthers want him to join. His girlfriend begs him to take her away from the ghetto forever. But Marcus does his own thing - and he's dead set on finding the arsonist who torched a tenement and killed his mother. Plagued by recurring nightmares of the blaze, Marcus throws himself headlong into a search that leads him through the seediest back alleys of Watts. Before long, he winds up in an incredible, high-speed chase and gets a thorough thrashing from some real bad dudes. But Marcus beats the odds and has it out with Jumbo, the king-sized kingpin of the neighborhood, in a decisive man-to-man showdown.

Pipe Dreams (1976)























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Singing star Gladys Knight and her real-life husband, Barry Hankerson, play a couple trying to repair their broken marriage in this highly dramatic romantic adventure set against the background of the Alaskan pipeline. Hankerson must decide between reuniting with Knight or going against her wishes by giving in to the corrupt pressure of the local political boss.

Mister Deathman (1977)











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Geoffrey Graves is a suave secret agent who's called out of retirement and sent to South Africa to recover a kidnapped aerospace engineer before he can reveal the secrets of the government's experimental "solar shuttle". He faces a lesbian enemy agent named "Liz" and there's a rotary phone in a Lamborghini.