A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West. Read More »
Tag Archives: Harry Belafonte
Jazz ’34 (1996) Robert Altman, Geri Allen, Harry Belafonte, Ron Carter
Musicians remember the Kansas City jazz scene, paying homage to the legends of the genre. Read More »
Kansas City (1996) Robert Altman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
Robert Altman’s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. Read More »
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Robert Wise, Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Dave Burke looks to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earle Slater Read More »
The Angel Levine (1970) Ján Kadár, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. Read More »
Carmen Jones (1954) Otto Preminger, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker and “hot bundle” Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte
Based on the story “See How They Run,” which ran in the June 1951 issue of “The Ladies’ Home Journal” Read More »