Biography: Richard Roundtree |
Blaxploitation superstar Richard Roundtree earned screen immortality during the 1970s as the legendary Shaft, "the black private dick that's the sex machine to all the chicks." Born July 9, 1942, in New Rochelle, NY, Roundtree attended college on a... more
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All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 100min
As a pair of youthful friends about to be separated by fate ponder their future lives apart in this metaphysical drama starring Richard Roundtree. His sleep suddenly interrupted by a late night telephone call, studious introvert Wes picks up the...
Cast: Tate Donovan
Length: 120min
Based on a comic book series created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, the made-for-cable Painkiller Jane stars Emmanuelle Vaugier as Jane Elizabeth Browning, a young Marine captain who is the sole survivor when her Special Ops force is exposed to a...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Episode 1: Promises Betrayed (1865-1896) (2002)
Cast: Richard Roundtree
Tags: History Biography Politics & Government Social History Race & Ethnicity
Length: 60min
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, African-Americans, recently freed from slavery, were promised the right to vote and a place in American society. While the military maintained order in the South during Reconstruction, the North withdrew its...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Episode 2: Fighting Back (1896-1917) (2002)
Tags: History Politics & Government Biography Social History Race & Ethnicity
Length: 60min
The second episode of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow documents the rising black middle class and the birth of African-American political organizations, like the NAACP in 1909. During this time, W.E.B. Du Bois emerged as an outspoken critic of the Jim...
Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
Cast: David Carradine
Tags: Action
Length: 90min
A former kickboxer who has forsaken fighting to become a professional photographer finds that leaving his painful past behind isn't as simple as just walking away in an action-packed take of fight or flight starring Richard Roundtree, David Carradine,...
Cast: Pam Grier Fred Williamson Jim Brown
Tags: Crime Reunion Films Blaxploitation Gangster Film Crime Thriller
Length: 98min
Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus....
Cast: Irma P. Hall Annabeth Gish Judd Nelson
Tags: Action Superhero Film
Length: 97min
Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille...
Tags: Erotic Thriller Thriller
Length: 96min
Softcore porn auteur Gregory Hippolyte directed this thriller featuring plenty of female nudity and starring Nick Cassavetes, son of famed indie director John Cassavetes. Beverly Hills shrink Dr. Jonathan Brooks (Cassavetes) seemingly has everything...
Cast: John Cleese
Tags: Slapstick Jungle Film Comedy
Length: 91min
Jay Ward's fondly-remembered cartoon series about a klutzy king of the jungle gets the big-screen, live-action treatment in this comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. A young boy named George becomes lost in the jungles of the African nation of Bukuvu...
Cast: Telly Savalas
Tags: Drama Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 94min
From the evidence at hand, it seems apparent that the inexpensive Mind Twister was the last cinematic stand for the late Telly Savalas. There's a wacko killer at large, murdering at random. A courageous cop offers himself as bait to stop the murderer....
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