Godfrey Cambridge
Рождение : 1933-02-26, New York City
Смерть : 1976-11-29
История
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Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time magazine in 1965 as "one of the country's four most celebrated Negro comedians."
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Himself (archive footage)
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
Tom Turpin
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Ford Malotte
Пятница Фостер, экс-модель популярного журнала, едет в Международный аэропорт Лос-Анджелеса, чтобы сфотографировать прибытие Блейк Тара — одного из богатейших чернокожих мужчин Америки. В поле объектива Фостер попадают трое мужчин, предпринимающих попытку покушения на Блейка Тарра. С этого момента Фостер погружается в паутину заговора с целью убийства ее друга детства, сенатора США, организованного, по слухам, особой, известной под прозвищем «Черная вдова». События, в которых она ничего не понимает, развиваются стремительно, но после ряда покушений на свою жизнь, Пятница Фостер начинает понимать, что чтобы остаться в живых, ей необходимо рассчитывать только на свои силы и верить нельзя никому…
Dusty
Доброволец Дадли становится объектом многочисленных биологических и химических военных экспериментов. Когда из-за этих экспериментов его здоровье оказывается серьезно подорванным, его отправляют на пенсию. Тогда он решает использовать экспериментальные образцы, чтобы ограбить банк.
Mr. Jenkins
Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.
Producer
An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Writer
An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Host - Himself
An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.
Godfrey Cambridge
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Gravedigger Jones
Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
Chester Hargis
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
Willie Dorsey
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl Holliman) tells his son Lonnie that his dog, Moreover, is a good-for-nothing "biscuit eater."
Gravedigger Jones
Сыщики "Могильщик" Джонс и "Забитый в гроб" Джонсон расследуют аферу Преподобного Дика О'Малли, организовавшего для чернокожих жителей Гарлема кампанию под лозунгом "Обратно в Африку", которая оказывается настоящим надувательством ради наживы. Но когда в кипе с хлопком обнаруживаются отмытые О'Малли 87 тысяч долларов, "Могильщик" и "Забитый в гроб" обнаруживают, что они не единственные, кто интересуется резким взлетом роста цен на хлопок! Отслеживая путь кипы по всему Гарлему, сыщики оказываются под прицелом мафии, полиции и чернокожих радикалов, стремящихся заполучить деньги и убрать с дороги любого, кто встанет у них на пути.
Jeff Gerber
Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.
Taxi Driver
One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
Benjamin 'Benny' Brownstead
Банда новичков-преступников похищает в Италии знаменитого американского гангстера Чезаре Челли. Главарь дилетантов Гарри Прайс требует выкуп в размере пяти миллионов долларов, уверенный, что криминальные авторитеты готовы заплатить даже больше за освобождение своего старого товарища.
Однако те не спешат собирать деньги, и раздосадованному похитителю приходится выдумывать новый план, чтобы хотя бы покрыть бессмысленные затраты.
Гарри решает украсть огромный груз платины, но тут к нему начинает приставать со своими советами сам Чезаре Челли. В конце концов, у него в таких делах куда больше опыта!
Don Masters
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
Mike
Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Fire Inspector
A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
Gitlow Judson
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.