Screenplay
Donna Bon Viant (Belaine) is a college student, who has to complete an assignment on the 14th century for her African American literature class. She chooses to base her writings on The Three Musketeers, a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Donna begins to read the novel and falls asleep in the process. She dreams a zany dream involving the adventures of "The Three Muscatels". The adventures include a number of people in Donna's life including students in her class, members of her family, and an alcoholic she met earlier in the day named Russell (Pryor).
Victor Langford
Donna Bon Viant (Belaine) is a college student, who has to complete an assignment on the 14th century for her African American literature class. She chooses to base her writings on The Three Musketeers, a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Donna begins to read the novel and falls asleep in the process. She dreams a zany dream involving the adventures of "The Three Muscatels". The adventures include a number of people in Donna's life including students in her class, members of her family, and an alcoholic she met earlier in the day named Russell (Pryor).
Earl Ross
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.
Young Dude
In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer's (Paul Harris) numbers game.
Soldier
César, el simio que capitaneó la revuelta contra la raza humana, es un benévolo gobernante que fomenta la convivencia con los hombres, a pesar de la oposición del general Aldo, jefe militar de los simios. No obstante, los hombres que han sobrevivido al holocausto nuclear son considerados ciudadanos de segunda clase. César decide realizar un viaje a la "Ciudad Prohibida" con MacDonald y el sabio Virgil, en busca de unas cintas en las que estaría grabada la muerte de sus padres. Durante el viaje, es observado por un grupo de hombres mutantes que viven en la devastada zona de guerra. Éste es el motivo por el que el General Aldo desafiará la autoridad de César y, además, provocará un enfrentamiento entre simios y hombres, para dirimir quién gobernará el planeta.
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
