Watch Five on the Black Hand Side (1973) Free Online

Release Date: 1973

Cast: Virginia Capers, Carl Franklin, Leonard Jackson, Godfrey Cambridge, Tchaka Almoravids, Clarice Taylor, Bonnie Banfield, Kwasi Badu, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin

Categories: Movies, Family Drama, Comedy-Drama, Drama Film, Comedy, Blaxploitation

Five on the Black Hand Side is a 1973 comedy film based on the play by Charlie L. Russell. It was shot in Los Angeles. Leonard Jackson appeared as John Henry Brooks. He was cast in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple fifteen years later. Its tagline was "You've been coffy-tized, blacula-rized and super-flied - but now you're gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride... when you see Five on the Black Hand Side." This relationship between the two parents in this movie (Mr. and Mrs. Brooks), was parodied in a skit of the same name on the comedy series "In Living Color". MORE

Five on the Black Hand Side is a 1973 comedy film based on the play by Charlie L. Russell. It was shot in Los Angeles. Leonard Jackson appeared as John Henry Brooks. He was cast in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple fifteen years later. Its tagline was "You've been coffy-tized, blacula-rized and super-flied - but now you're gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride... when you see Five on the Black Hand Side." This relationship between the two parents in this movie (Mr. and Mrs. Brooks), was parodied in a skit of the same name on the comedy series "In Living Color". LESS