The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)

  • 87% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (214 ratings)

Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of 1939. African-American baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), tired of being jerked around by the less-than-ethical managers of the Negro League teams, forms his own… More

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PG, 1 hr. 51 min.
Directed By
John Badham
Written By
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Jul 16, 1976 Wide
On DVD
Apr 5, 2005
MCA Universal Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Pauline Kael, New Yorker

    Rowdy, good-natured comedy melodrama.

  • Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine

    This is a friendly, no-account movie full of intermittent high spirits.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    A slick and reasonably funny comedy.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones are superb.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Genial, slapdash, high-spirited and occasionally moving.

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