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starring: Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman, Robert Calvert (II), Howard Bennettdirected by: Anthony Harvey (II)
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305907299
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6305907293
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 04, 2000
Running Time: 54 minutes
Sales Rank: 55024
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Rating: - Explosive Drama
With a running time of just under one hour, DUTCHMAN has enough dramatic explosiveness to rock a movie theatre to pieces. Based on the play by LeRoi Jones (before he changed his name to Amiri Baraka), DUTCHMAN tells the story of Clay (Daytime Emmy Award-winner Al Freeman, Jr.), a seemingly mild-mannered black man that encounters an uninhibited white woman named Lula (two time Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight).
While sitting in a subway car, Clay glances out the window and catches the ... Read More
Rating: - 1 Hour of '60s Magic
Dutchman is a play by LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka) set to this 1966 film starring Shirley Knight. First thing that strikes you is Knight's Sexyness with a capital S. She's all over the screen and Al Freeman Jr. as well. The whole hourlong Kerouacesque meditation on life, sex, and race plays out in black and white (pun intended) in a subway car. Bears some similarity to its contemporary, The Incident (Martin Sheen), but Dutchman goes far deeper in its artistic eloquence.
The underlying ... Read More
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