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Hampton Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez, Clarence Williams III, Gary Bolling

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despa...( read more  read more... )ir due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest, to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one.

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Unrated, 105 minutes

Directed by: Shirley Clarke

Release Date: April 20, 1964

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  • notspam555
    May 30, 2009
    notspam555
    Shirley Clarke died not too long ago, and STILL the bitch asses sit on this movie. WHEN can we finally fucking see this?

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