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After directing the documentary
King: A Filmed Record, Sidney Lumet turned to something
that sounded tantalizing, a Gore Vidal script
adapted from a Tennessee Williams play dealing with race and sex with James Coburn,
Robert Hooks, and Lynn Redgrave. The desperate-to-be-lurid result
was Last of the Mobile Hotshots, which got an X rating, apparently because a Black man
might have sex with a white woman. The oven door's broke,
the roof leaks, the toilet runs all day, and you awful cute to be a landlord
King: A Filmed Record, Sidney Lumet turned to something
that sounded tantalizing, a Gore Vidal script
adapted from a Tennessee Williams play dealing with race and sex with James Coburn,
Robert Hooks, and Lynn Redgrave. The desperate-to-be-lurid result
was Last of the Mobile Hotshots, which got an X rating, apparently because a Black man
might have sex with a white woman. The oven door's broke,
the roof leaks, the toilet runs all day, and you awful cute to be a landlord
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After directing the documentary
King: A Filmed Record,
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Sidney Lumet turned to something
that sounded tantalizing,
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a Gore Vidal script
adapted from a Tennessee Williams play
00:00:10.076 --> 00:00:12.637
dealing with race and sex
00:00:12.072 --> 00:00:16.182
with James Coburn,
Robert Hooks, and Lynn Redgrave.
00:00:16.265 --> 00:00:19.769
The desperate-to-be-lurid result
was Last of the Mobile Hotshots,
00:00:19.852 --> 00:00:21.027
which got an X rating,
00:00:21.354 --> 00:00:26.067
apparently because a Black man
might have sex with a white woman.
00:00:27.443 --> 00:00:32.365
The oven door's broke,
the roof leaks, the toilet runs all day,
00:00:32.448 --> 00:00:34.007
and you awful cute to be a landlord.
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Movie Summary
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
