Carter's Army 1970  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Black Brigade
Director: George McCowan
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Roosevelt Grier, Moses Gunn, Richard Pryor, Glynn Turman, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Stewart, Bobby Johnson, Napoleon Whiting, Paul Mooney
Captain Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd) is ordered to lead an all-Black unit on a suicide mission to take a bridge under Nazi control. An even bigger problem than taking the bridge is that Carter is a redneck and has been given only two days to train his men for the mission. Will he succeed?
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 Fled 1996 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Will Patton, Robert John Burke, Robert Hooks, Victor Rivers, David Dukes, Ken Jenkins, Salma Hayek
Two chained-together convicts, Piper (Laurence Fishburne) and Dodge (Stephen Baldwin), escape and set off to get their hands on the money they left behind before serving time. Both the Cuban-American Mafia and the police are in fast pursuit along the trail of Piper and Dodge.
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Heat Wave 1990  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, David Strathairn, Robert Hooks, Adam Arkin, Margaret Avery, Charlie Korsmo
Good acting and story make this made-for-TV film, based on the 1965 Watts riots, worth watching
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Hurry Sundown 1967 N/R, 142 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Robert Hooks, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, George Kennedy, Jim Backus, Robert Reed
An avaricious Southerner, Henry Warren (Michael Caine), plots to expand his landholdings and has his eye on his cousin's land. Rad McDowell (John Phillip Law) and Reeve Scott (Robert Hooks) try to stop him.
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 Passenger 57 1992 R, 83 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher, Bruce Greenwood, Robert Hooks, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael Horse, Ernie Lively, Marc Macaulay, Duchess Tomasello, Joel Fogel, William Edward Roberts, James Short, Jane McPherson
FBI agents are escorting a dangerous criminal (Bruce Payne) when he and his cohorts skyjack the plane on which they are riding and kill the agents. John Cutter (Wesley Snipes), an airline security agent, is aboard and must defuse the terrorist situation.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Robert Hooks, Christopher Lloyd, Nichelle Nichols, James Sikking, Merritt Butrick, Phil Morris, Scott McGinnis, Robin Curtis, John Larroquette
Whoops! Just when we thought that Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was dead, it turns out that his spirit is alive and is residing in the body of Enterprise crewman Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Spock's body must be transported back to the planet Vulcan, and Adm. Kirk (William Shatner) steals the Enterprise to retrieve Spock's coffin on the planet Geneses. Problems erupt when they encounter a Klingon ship, but Kirk wins the battle, retrieves the coffin, and heads for a ceremony on Vulcan to re-fuse Spock's body.
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| 1. Carter's Army (1970)
aka: Black Brigade
2. Fled (1996)
3. Heat Wave (1990)
4. Hurry Sundown (1967)
5. Passenger 57 (1992)
6. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
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