Castle Keep 1969  R, 119 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk, Tony Bill, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, Al Freeman Jr., Michael Conrad
During World War II, both German and American soldiers vie for a 10th-century castle in the Ardennes forest.
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The Detective 1968  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Al Freeman Jr., Jacqueline Bisset, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Robert Duvall, Horace McMahon, Lloyd Bochner, William Windom
A homosexual is killed, and apparently there are only two honest policemen in the NYPD. As this film unfolds, it presents an assortment of cops with various degrees of psychological problems. Frank Sinatra is excellent as one of the honest cops who ends up losing his job and his wife while pursuing the homosexual's killer.
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Down in the Delta 1998  PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maya Angelou
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr., Mary Alice, Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine, Wesley Snipes, Mpho Koaho, Kulani Hassen, Anne-Marie Johnson, Justin Lord
Loretta (Alfie Woodward) is 30 years old, and her life is going nowhere. To remedy the situation her mother, Rosa Lynn (Mary Alice), sends Loretta and her two children down South for the summer to live with her Aunt and Uncle (Esther Rolle and Al Freeman Jr.). After a short time, Loretta begins to blossom and, through family ties, gets her act together.
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King 1978  TV, 300 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: King: The Martin Luther King Story
Director: Abby Mann
Cast: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lonny Chapman, Ossie Davis, Cliff De Young, Al Freeman Jr., Clu Gulager, Dick Anthony Williams, Steven Hill, William Jordan, Warren J. Kemmerling
This TV miniseries is a good chronicle of Martin Luther King's (Paul Winfield) early peaceful protests against segregation through his assassination in 1968.
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The Lost Man 1969 PG, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Alan Arthur
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr., Leon Bibb, Richard Dysart, David Steinberg, Paul Winfield, Michael Tolan, Beverly Todd, Bernie Hamilton
This remake of "Odd Man Out" is about criminal Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who gets involved with social worker Cathy Ellis (Joanna Shimkus) and civil rights leader Dennis (Al Freeman Jr.). Higgs finds unorthodox means to take care of children of jailed activists.
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 Malcolm X 1992 PG-13, 201 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, Theresa Randle, Lonette McKee, Debi Mazar, Joe Seneca, Kate Vernon, Tommy Hollis, James McDaniel, LaTanya Richardson
This is a very good biographical film about Malcolm X (Denzel Washington) and his rise from Black activist to influential leader of the Nation of Islam and his assassination at age 39.
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Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored 1996 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Tim Reid
Cast: Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Richard Roundtree, Polly Bergen, Paula Kelly, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes, Salli Richardson, Anna Maria Horsford, Willis Norwood Jr., Karen Malina White, Damon Hines, Iona Morris, Taj Mahal
Based on Clifton L. Taulbert's book, this is the inspiring story of young Clifton who is born to an unmarried sharecropper and sent to live with his grandpa (Al Freeman Jr.) and then to his loving aunt (Phylicia Rashad). Cliff grows up in Mississippi amidst the Jim Crow laws aimed at keeping him segregated and unable to achieve success in the mid-20th-century American South.
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Seven Hours to Judgment 1988  R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Beau Bridges
Cast: Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Julianne Phillips, Tiny Ron, Al Freeman Jr., Reggie Johnson, Glenn-Michael Jones, Shawn Miller, Chris Garcia, Tony Lee Troy
David Reardon's (Ron Leibman) wife is robbed, and left for dead on the street. Judge John Eden (Beau Bridges) is assigned to the hearing of a street gang that is accused of the crime and rejects a plea from David for a delay. Finding a lack of evidence, the judge sets the gang members free. When David's wife later dies, he kidnaps the judge's wife, rigs a warehouse with booby traps and surveillance cameras to watch her, and tells the judge that he has seven hours to find the evidence to convict the gang members. Thus, the judge must hit the dangerous streets to obtain the evidence. Good grief!
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This Rebel Breed 1960 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Black Rebels
Three Shades of Love
Director: Richard L. Bare
Cast: Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Jay Novello, Eugene Martin, Tom Gilson, Richard Rust, Doug Hume, Richard Laurier, Dyan Cannon, Al Freeman Jr.
Gangs rule in the high school as Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics push drugs and enjoy wild parties. The solution: send in undercover cops Frank and Don (Mark Damon and Doug Hume) to investigate.
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| 1. Castle Keep (1969)
2. The Detective (1968)
3. Down in the Delta (1998)
4. Finian's Rainbow (1968)
5. King (1978)
aka: King: The Martin Luther King Story
6. The Lost Man (1969)
7. Malcolm X (1992)
8. Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored (1996)
9. Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
10. This Rebel Breed (1960)
aka: The Black Rebels
aka: Three Shades of Love
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