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Moses Gunn

Moses Gunn

Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 17, 1993) was an American actor. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks. He was nominated for a 1976 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for The Poison Tree and played Othello on Broadway in 1970.

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Memphis (1992)

Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to stop them. ...

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Perfect Harmony (1991)

During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain? ...

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Brother Future (1991)

A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt. ...

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Murder Times Seven (1990)

For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the ...

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The Women of Brewster Place (1989)

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home. ...

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The Luckiest Man in the World (1989)

New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life unpleasant for his wife, mistress and everyone else around him. When he's late for a flight that ends up crashing on the runway, the near-miss causes him to change ...

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Dixie Lanes (1988)

Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in lieu of serving time in prison. Chaos and confusion greet Clarence upon his return - his pre-war moonshine activities and absence have embittered his teenage ...

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Leonard Part 6 (1987)

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonar ...

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Bates Motel (1987)

A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility, inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business. ...

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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. ...

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Certain Fury (1985)

Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a courtroom shoot-out. ...

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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test o ...

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The House of Dies Drear (1984)

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are ...

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Firestarter (1984)

Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her? ...

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The Killing Floor (1984)

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. ...

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The NeverEnding Story (1984)

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Fal ...

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Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on their children, Dolores recruits ...

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Ragtime (1981)

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. ...

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The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies. ...

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Remember My Name (1978)

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife. ...

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Law of the Land (1976)

A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes. ...

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The First Breeze of Summer (1976)

A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a young woman and a hard-working father's current conflict with his two unhappy sons. ...

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Aaron Loves Angela (1975)

Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants ...

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Rollerball (1975)

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game. ...

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Carter's Army (1975)

A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. ...

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Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at ...

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Amazing Grace (1974)

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts. ...

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Legacy of Blood (1974)

An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die. ...

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The Iceman Cometh (1973)

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this ...

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Moving Target (1973)

A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, and suspicion arises the killer is a fellow officer. ...

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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972)

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fier ...

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Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)

A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering about their existences. ...

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Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client. ...

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The Hot Rock (1972)

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it... ...

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Eagle in a Cage (1972)

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. ...

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Shaft (1971)

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. ...

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Wild Rovers (1971)

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one ...

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The Sheriff (1971)

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student. ...

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The Great White Hope (1970)

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down. ...

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WUSA (1970)

Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detac ...

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Of Mice and Men (1968)

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards. ...

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Nothing But a Man (1964)

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America. ...

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