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Don't Play Us Cheap
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Comedy.
- Romance.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1972
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Melvin Van Peebles's film version of his own Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical is a bold blend of theater and nervy, New Wave-inflected cinematic invention. A cast of Black stage and screen luminaries including Esther Rolle, Mabel King, and Avon Long stars in this charmingly offbeat, fablelike fantasy in which a pair of mischief-making devil-bats dispatched by Satan assume human form in order to wreak havoc on a Saturday-night house party in Harlem-only to find their diabolical plan thwarted by their hosts' infectious generosity of spirit. Staged with ebullience, the original blues- and gospel-infused songs by Van Peebles burst forth in a life-affirming celebration of Black joy, tenderness, resilience, and strength
- Participant:
- Avon Long, Joe Keyes Jr., Rhetta Hughes
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1972
- Publisher Number:
- 14353095 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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