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The Mack
Why this pick
Like Willie Dynamite, it uses the flamboyant pimp figure to probe status, exploitation and self-invention, with vivid early-1970s street style and a tougher, socially conscious edge.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1974 1h 42m USA
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Why this pick
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Black Caesar
Why this pick
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The Education of Sonny Carson
Why this pick
Also directed by Michael Campus, it shares a raw New York immediacy and concern for how violence, poverty and street codes shape a young man's identity, though in a grittier register.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
We first see Willie Dynamite as the film's opening credits begin, with Martha Reeves singing the movie's title song, 'Willie Dynamite.' Willie is driving his 'pimped-out' purple Cadillac on the streets of midtown Manhattan. The front license plate reading the first part of his nickname - 'Willie,' and the back license plate reading the second part - 'Dynamite.' Willie's destination is a midtown hotel, to collect payment from his women - who work the midtown hotels, attracting the many businessmen, conventioneers, who are looking for sex.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Roscoe Orman
Willie
Diana Sands
Cora
Thalmus Rasulala
Robert Daniels
Roger Robinson
Bell
George Murdock
Celli
Royce Wallace
Willie's Mother
Judith Brown
Gorgia
Marilyn Coleman
Connie