Film
Five on the Black Hand Side
United States- Director
- Oscar Williams
- Year
- 1973
You've been coffy-tized, blacula-rized and super-flied - but now you're gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride... when you see
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Top cast
Clarice Taylor
Mrs. Brooks
Leonard Jackson
Mr. Brooks
Virginia Capers
Ruby
Glynn Turman
Gideon
Dick Anthony Williams
Preston
Carl Franklin
Marvin
Ja'net DuBois
Stormy Monday
D'Urville Martin
Booker T.
Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey Cambridge
Sonny Jim Gaines
Sweetmeat
Bonnie Banfield
Gail
Frankie Crocker
Rolls Royce
Tchaka Almoravids
Fun Loving
Henry G. Sanders
Barber Shop Patron (uncredited)
Directed by
Oscar Williams
Written by
Charlie L. Russell
Produced by
Brock Peters, Michael Tolan
