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Tag Archives: Richard Pryor
The Mack (1973) Michael Campus, Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Read More »
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) John Badham, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter (Ted Ross) Read More »
Silver Streak (1976) Arthur Hiller, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. Read More »
Blue Collar (1978) Paul Schrader, Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. Read More »
Which Way Is Up? (1977) Michael Schultz, Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery
Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker’s union during one of their demonstrations. Read More »
Another You (1991) Maurice Phillips, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl, Comedy, Crime
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Read More »
Adiós Amigo (1976) Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor, James Brown, Action, Comedy, Western
Hold your horses and hang on to your hat. Richard Pryor and Fred Williamson are riding into town in the funniest, wildest western this side of the Rio Grande. Read More »
Dynamite Chicken (1971) Ernest Pintoff, Richard Pryor, Ace Trucking Company, Patti Deutsch, Comedy
A collection of skits, parodies, musical performances, and film clips supposedly relating to the peace movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies , but more a general patchwork than a purposeful collection.
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The Toy (1982) Richard Donner, Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Comedy
Unemployed journalist Jack Brown (Richard Pryor) is attempting to make ends meet as the night janitor in a ritzy department store owned by Louisiana millionaire U.S. Bates (Jackie Gleason). On his annual visit to his father’s store, Bates’ pampered son, Eric (Scott Schwartz), is told he can choose one item in the toy department. To everyone’s horror, he chooses Jack. Paid handsomely to spend one week with the troublesome kid, Jack soon discovers the roots of Eric’s bad behavior.
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