Roscoe Lee BrowneFilmography

Smiley Face

Actors: Anna Faris, Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Masterson, Ben Falcone, Adam Brody

Synopsis: One woman's day goes all to pot in this resinous comedy from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. Jane (Anna Faris) is a college dropout and aspiring actress who suffers from a certain lack of ambition, doubtless reinforced by her fondness for marijuana. One morning, Jane wakes with a busy day ahead Read More

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Lucy Davis

Synopsis: The laziest cat in America swaps places with the richest feline in England in director Tim Hill's lasagna-laden sequel to the 2004 theatrical hit Garfield. Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) is on his way to London to propose to his veterinarian girlfriend, Liz Wilson (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and his Read More

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Treasure Planet

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of adventure Treasure Island gets a science fiction update in this animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures. Jim (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar Read More

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Synopsis: Among the tasks undertaken by the WPA's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s was to transcribe the memories of those former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Campbell Scott, Blair Brown, Jamey Sheridan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lisa Gay Hamilton

Synopsis: Campbell Scott is both star and co-director of this elaborate (albeit economically produced) four-hour TV version of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The film is based on Scott's earlier theatrical production of the same play, with several of the same actors repeating Read More

ER: Rites of Spring

Synopsis: Carol (Julianna Margulies) tells Greene (Anthony Edwards) that she is pregnant, and offers some encouraging words to schizophrenic new mother Coco (Sheila Kelley). Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) finds her faith renewed as she cares for Rev. Matthew Lynn (Roscoe Lee Browne). Lucy (Kellie Martin) discovers Read More

Babe: Pig in the City

Actors: Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Mickey Rooney, Julie Godfrey

Synopsis: The 1995 Academy award-winning film Babe was Australian-made and featured the latest in talking animal anima-tronics. It told the heart-warming story of a sheepherding pig named Babe and his rise to community fame. The film was a tremendous hit, both financially and critically. Babe: Pig in the Read More

Judas Kiss

Actors: Simon Baker-Denny, Gil Bellows, Carla Gugino, Alan Rickman, Til Schweiger

Synopsis: Young lovers and small-time New Orleans scammers Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) move up a few rungs when they kidnap wealthy computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise) in Sebastian Gutierrez's neo-noir. During the crime, Coco kills Dyson's girlfriend, Patty (Beverly Penberthy Read More

Dear God

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, Tim Conway, Hector Elizondo, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: In this comedy, a man trying to turn away from a life of crime starts performing a little larceny in the interest of helping others. Tom Turner (Greg Kinnear) is a small-time con man who makes the mistake of trying to cheat a pair of undercover cops one night. Fortunately for Tom, his case is Read More

Forest Warrior

Actors: Chuck Norris, Terry Kiser, Max Gail, Roscoe Lee Browne, Trenton Knight

Synopsis: When avaricious land developers threaten the pristine forest playground of local children, a mythical spirit appears to help them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Babe

Actors: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -- in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected international success due to superior special effects and an intelligent script. The title refers to the name bestowed on a piglet soon after his Read More

The Pompatus of Love

Actors: Jon Cryer, Tim Guinee, Adrian Pasdar, Mia Sara, Kristin Scott Thomas

Synopsis: This lively and complicated romantic comedy-drama centers on four fellows. Runyon is a poet carrying a torch for Kathryn; he flies to LA to talk about scripting a movie and is accompanied by the lovely Tarzaan. Gadabout Josh is seen having a fling with a Chinese hat-check girl and pursuing Read More

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Actors: Brooke Smith, Victoria Foyt, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Robin Baitz, Melissa Leo, Martha Plimpton

Synopsis: A legendary theatrical family gather for one final show at their East Hamptons estate in this verbose comedy-drama. Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors takes center stage as Helena, the family matriarch, who has made the difficult decision to sell the estate due to financial problems. A mixed group Read More

Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X

Synopsis: This provocative documentary, filmed in black and white, and color, examines the allegations surrounding the black leader's demise in 1965. It focuses on Malcolm's political situation prior to the killing with a special emphasis upon the coalition he and Martin Luther King were trying to form. Read More

Marilyn Monroe: Life After Death

Actors: Joyce Brothers, David Brown, Amy Greene, Hugh Hefner

Synopsis: This documentary is an homage to Marilyn Monroe, arguably the most famous sex-symbol of the 20th century. The film offers a loving examination of her enduring charm and chronicles the continued devotion of her fans. Rather than present the traditional chronological biography, the filmmakers have Read More

Eddie Presley

Actors: Duane Whitaker, Roscoe Lee Browne, Clu Gulager, Stacie Bourgeois

Synopsis: Eddie Presley (Duane Whitaker} is a security guard who, like his lifetime hero, is slightly overweight these days. Formerly, he occasionally worked as an Elvis impersonator. Recently he has had rather a rough time, but his spirits have improved on learning that he will have a chance to revive his Read More

Naked in New York

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Ralph Macchio, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Kathleen Turner, Timothy Dalton, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: The sponsorship of noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese helped the novice filmmakers making this film get it produced and receive mainstream distribution. In addition, it features a vast number of appearances by well-known performers, who took an interest in the project, taking union minimum pay. In Read More

The Mambo Kings

Actors: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Synopsis: New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the early 1950s to make it as musicians in the United States. Cynthia Cidre wrote the literate screenplay adapted from Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Read More

You Must Remember This

Synopsis: A highly principled African-American independent filmmaker hides his early profession because his films never became popular. This Wonderworks drama chronicles what happens when the former filmmaker's niece finds his old films in a trunk and then begins researching her uncle's contributions. She Read More

Law & Order: Consultation

Synopsis: A pregnant Nigerian woman dies while carrying 20 heroin-filled condoms in her stomach. In seeking the person or persons responsible for the woman's grisly demise, the detectives and the attorneys come up with two possibles: engineer Phillip Marietta (Andrew Robinson) and African tribal chieftain Read More

A Different World: Do the Write Thing

Synopsis: To improve her grades so that she can keep her engineering scholarship, Lena (Jada Pinkett) writes a florid "biographical" essay, heavily fictionalizing the accomplishments of her father Grover James (Ron Canada). Certain that no one will ever learn the real story, Lena is terror-stricken when Read More

Masters of American Music: Count Basie - Swingin' the Blues

Synopsis: One of the undisputed masters of Kansas City jazz, William "Count" Basie was among the greatest bandleaders of the swing years, whose group featured such greats as Illinois Jacquet, Quincy Jones, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Joe Williams, Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, and many more during Basie's nearly Read More

Gordon Parks: "Visions"

Synopsis: Photographer, author, scriptwriter, and director, Gordon Parks' visions are captured in this video. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Different World: Almost Working Girl

Synopsis: Whitley (Jasmine Guy recommends that E.H. Wright engage the services of the new temp agency run by Jaleesa (Dawnn Wright)--and that, boys and girls, is how Freddie (Cree Summer) ends up working as a secretary. Unfortunately, an argument over Affirmative Action gets Freddie fired, and at the same Read More

Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo

Actors: Peter Falk, Helen Shaver, Ian McShane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Edward Winter

Synopsis: This was one of the highest-rated of the Columbo 2-hour TV movies of the 1990s. The story begins as Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) solemnly attends his wife's funeral. Mrs. C. was poisoned, and the murderer is guest star Helen Shaver. When her husband died in prison, Shaver swore revenge on the three Read More

Night Angel

Actors: Isa Anderson, Karen Black, Linden Ashby, Debra Feuer, Helen Martin

Synopsis: In this horror film, a vamp masquerades as a fashion model and uses her feminine wiles to suck the souls and life from wimpy men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Moon 44

Actors: Michael Paré, Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Eichhorn, Brian Thompson, Dean Devlin

Synopsis: In the year 2038, multicosmic corporations are dominating the universe, subsuming planet after planet in search of valuable natural resources. An agent (Michael Pare) of the Galactic Mining Corporation is sent to a remote outpost as a safeguard against the ruthless attempts of the Pyrite company Read More

Lady in the Corner

Actors: Loretta Young, Lindsay Frost, Brian Keith, Bruce Davison, Christopher Neame

Synopsis: A determined editor fights tooth and nail with an executive to prevent their magazine from being taken over by a powerful publisher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lady in a Corner

Synopsis: The sole reason for watching the made-for-TV Lady in a Corner is star Loretta Young, looking as youthful and stunning as ever in the role of a powerful magazine publisher. The plot introduces a British "sleaze lord" based on you-know-who, who inaugurates a hostile takeover of Young's publishing Read More

Stuck With Each Other

Actors: Tyne Daly, Michael J. Pollard, Bubba Smith, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The made for TV Stuck With Each Other stars Richard Crenna and Tyne Daly as two luckless New Yorkers, a salesman and a secretary respectively. One morning they come to the office to find that their boss has dropped dead--leaving behind an open safe containing $964,000 he's not supposed to have. Read More

Oliver and Company

Actors: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Bette Midler

Synopsis: This animated musical retells Dickens's Oliver Twist amongst animals in New York City, with Oliver as an innocent kitten who joins a gang of law-breaking dogs. When Oliver is adopted by a wealthy young woman, the gang's evil human owner hatches a kidnapping scheme to tap into the girl's fortune. Read More

A Different World: All's Fair

Synopsis: Whitley (Jasmine Guy) tries to be tolerant of her roommate Kim's all-consuming romance with new boyfriend Robert (Brian Wesley Thomas), but her patience comes to an abrupt end when Kim (Charnele Brown) locks her out of her own room. Meanwhile, Freddie (Cree Summer) turns into a merciless tyrant Read More

A Different World: Speech Therapy

Synopsis: Denise (Lisa Bonet) owes Maggie (Marisa Tomei) money, and Maggie isn't about to let her forget it. Whitley (Jasmine Guy) tries to figure out a way to get her hudimifier repaired without revealing that she has installed the device in her room without permission. And after working hard on a speech Read More

The Cosby Show: Shakespeare

Synopsis: Assigned to read Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", Theo (Malcolm Jamal-Warner) and Cockroach (Carl Anthony Payne II) cannot make heads nor tails of the text. All this changes when the Huxtable's house guest Dr. Barnabus Foster (Roscoe Lee Browne) teams up with the family's professor friend Jonathan Read More

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, James Belushi, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a computer operator in a large New York City bank who picks up a cry of help on her computer. Read More

Legal Eagles

Actors: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman directed this film, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah, that is an amalgam of a thriller, courtroom drama, mystery and Tracy-Hepburn romantic comedy, with a little Mark Rothko-type scandal thrown in. The film revolves around troubled Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah) Read More

The Cosby Show: The Card Game

Synopsis: Roscoe Lee Browne won an Emmy award for his first appearance as Dr. Barnabus Foster, Cliff's former college English professor and future recurring character on the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World. Having been regularly trounced at pinochle by his dad Russell (Earle Hyman) and Russell's old Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Of Sound Mind

Synopsis: When millionaire Wilson MacLeish, an extremely unpopular man who was notorious for his cruel practical jokes, is reported killed in a plane explosion, a surprised Magnum (Tom Selleck) learns that he has inherited MacLeish's estate--as well as an extra $50 million. Unfortunately, Magnum has also Read More

For Us, The Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Actors: Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Irene Cara

Synopsis: Howard E. Rollins stars as martyred civil-rights spokesman Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP leader) Myrlie. The film concentrates on the last years of Evers, an ex-insurance agent turned activist. His home in Jackson, Mississippi is besieged by bigots and he Read More

The Haunting of Harrington House

Synopsis: Dominique Dunne stars in this mild made-for-TV teen haunted-house movie. Dunne stars as a curious teenager who decides to get the bottom of the story of the allegedly haunted Harrington House by investigating strange events and people. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide Read More

Soap: Season 04

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: The death of Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was the big shocker at the end of Soap's third season. So imagine everyone's surprise when, as the series launched season four, Jessica was brought back to life -- following a brief stopover in Heaven to commiserate with all her ex-lovers! In another Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Z. Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Flawed and problematic, this romantic comedy is about Abigail Adams (Suzanne Somers), a sexy, talented, and dedicated lawyer, her new client Prof. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland), and their fight to save baby seals from slaughter. The issue was a hot one, but the film as a whole does not rise to Read More

Double Take

Is Everybody Happy But Me?

Synopsis: This documentary video focuses on a search for the secret of happiness. From religious cults and spiritualism, to overindulgence in food and sex, this is most interesting. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Scorpion

Synopsis: Dr. Scorpion (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a megalomaniac genius, who plans to rule the world with or without the world's cooperation. His chief nemesis is marine biologist Jonathan Shackleford (Nick Mancuso), an ex-spy better known as "Shack". Shack was also the title of the TV series for which the Read More

Mark Twain: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Synopsis: Adaptation of Mark Twain's story finds a Connecticut blacksmith who falls asleep and finds himself in King Arthur's England. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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King: The Martin Luther King Story

Synopsis: King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978. Paul Winfield is starred as Martin Luther King, with Cicely Tyson as Coretta Scott King. The film covers the years 1954 through 1968, taking Rev. King from his first peaceful Read More

Unknown Powers

Synopsis: In this special feature, a group of people examine a variety of unexplained powers, including ESP, astrology, and magic. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government will someday tell the truth about the Southeast Asian debacle, thereby allowing his country to embark upon a healing process. Regarded as a dangerous embarrassment by the Read More

Logan's Run

Actors: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett

Synopsis: In a hermetically sealed, post-apocalyptic urban environment several centuries hence, Logan 5 (Michael York) and his friend Francis 7 (Richard Jordan) lead unquestioning lives of hedonism. Entertainment comes in the form of casual sexual liaisons and gladiatorial games in which those who do not Read More

Uptown Saturday Night

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they Read More

Good Times: God's Business is Good Business

Synopsis: Roscoe Lee Browne guest stars as an old army buddy of James Evans (John Amos). Now a flamboyantly successful TV minister, "Reverend" Sam offers James a job in his organization -- at the incredibly high per diem salary of 100 dollars. Will James sell his soul once he realizes what Florida (Esther Rolle Read More

The World's Greatest Athlete

Actors: Tim Conway, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: One of the best of the early-1970s Disney farces, The World's Greatest Athlete stars Jan-Michael Vincent in the title role. A "wild boy" living off the land in the jungles of Africa, Vincent is discovered by coaches Tim Conway and John Amos. Cursed with a last-place college athletic lineup, Conway Read More

All in the Family: Archie Goes to the Hospital

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: Problems on the job manifest themselves in a huge backache for Archie Bunker. Landing in the hospital, he strikes up a warm friendship with his roommate, who is separated from Archie by a transom. Unbeknownst to him, Archie's unseen new friend is a black man. Roscoe Lee Browne guest stars as Mr. Read More

Superfly T.N.T.

Actors: Rik Boyd, Silvio Nardo

Synopsis: This sequel to Superfly has former drug dealer Youngblood Priest living in Rome with his lover. His life has become peaceful and he is utterly bored, so when a gun-smuggling African revolutionary shows up, he decides to help him overthrow the tyrant who is running the rebel's country. ~ Sandra Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A Trout in the Milk

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) make a memorable foray into the San Francisco artists' colony after a painter falls from his studio window to his death. Determining that the victim was murdered, the detectives zero in on the most likely suspect: urban poet and notorious jailbird Read More

The Cowboys

Actors: Sam O'Brien, Mike Pyeatt, John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: In one of John Wayne's more interesting late Westerns, "The Duke" plays Will Anderson, a crusty veteran cattleman preparing a 400-mile drive to get a herd of steers to market. Shortly before the trip is scheduled to begin, Will's crew quits when they get word of a nearby gold strike. With little Read More

Bonanza: He Was Only Seven

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: Roscoe Lee Browne guest-stars as Joshua, the crippled grandfather of a black youngster killed in a bank robbery. Struggling to overcome his bitterness against the white race in general, Joshua accepts the assistance of Joe Cartwright and Jamie in tracking down his grandson's killers. Featured in Read More

The Ra Expeditions

Actors: Thor Heyerdahl

Synopsis: At one time, the notion that ancient Egyptians could have sailed either the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean and landed in the Americas was received with the kind of incredulity and derision that Charles Darwin faced after publishing On the Origin of Species. Thor Heyerdahl's adventures in Kon--Tiki Read More

Sanford and Son: Jealousy

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lynn Hamilton

Synopsis: Nurse Donna Harris (Lynn Hamilton), erstwhile fiancée of Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx), invites one of her patients to Fred's house for dinner. Said patient, a virile smooth-talker named Wilcox (Roscoe Lee Browne), wastes no time in making Fred look like a washout by comparison. On the verge of Read More

All in the Family: The Elevator Story

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: It could only happen to Archie Bunker: He's trapped in a stalled elevator with a prickly black attorney named Thompson (Roscoe Lee Browne), a ditzy secretary named Miss McCarthy (Eileen Brennan), and a pregnant, monolingual Puerto Rican woman (Edith Diaz). Things take an even dicier turn when Mrs. Read More

Cisco Pike

Actors: Hugh Romney

Synopsis: This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing. Though he wants to go straight, he is blackmailed by a crooked cop who forces him to sell marijuana. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana, Lee Majors

Synopsis: Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella (Barbara Hershey), takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle Oman Hedgepath (Lee J. Cobb). L.B. Jones (Roscoe Read More

Topaz

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the Read More

Me and My Brother

Actors: Allen Ginsberg, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: This documentary about poet Peter Orlovsky's schizophrenic brother, Julius, is a film within a film and is generally regarded as photographer/documentarian Frank's masterwork. Brother Julius spent years in a mental hospital and upon release was put into his brother's care. Frank captures the Read More

Uptight

Actors: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne, Julian Mayfield

Synopsis: Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford's The Informer (35). The Irish Republican rebels of the original are replaced by black activists, Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto, and "the troubles" of 1921 are transformed into the days just following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Julian Mayfield Read More

The Comedians

Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

Synopsis: The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the Read More

Black Like Me

Actors: James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Al Freeman, Jr., Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that the best way to understand what it was like to be black in a segregated south was to experience the feeling first-hand, Griffin (James Whitmore) undergoes extensive-and Read More

Pie in the Sky

Actors: Lee Grant, Richard Bray, Michael Higgins

Synopsis: In this modern parable of middle-American values, a nine-year-old boy leaves behind the family farm for a few very instructive days in New York. A disagreement with his father sends Brill (Richard Bray) hitching to New York City to seek his fortune. After arriving in Manhattan, he falls in with a Read More

The Connection

Actors: Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow, Carl Lee, William Redfield

Synopsis: Experimental director Shirley Clarke's first feature film is a no-compromise look at the dead-end world of drug addiction in Manhattan. Awaiting their next "connection", eight dopers sit in a bleak New York loft. The addicts agree to allow filmmaker William Redfield to shoot a documentary of their Read More

Mark Twain: Connecticut Yankee