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Word: falana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...less than two hours it provides an anthology of liberal cant bound in a dust jacket of selfesteem. Lord Byron Jones (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a wealthy undertaker with two sources of shame: his skin, which is black, and his wife (Lola Falana), who has been carrying on with a white policeman (Anthony Zerbe). Jones discards his cowardice and sues for divorce-a maneuver designed to expose the sinners and, incidentally, the hypocrisy of the state of Tennessee. Jones' "liberation" is his murder, but along the way he frees his brethren and damns the Old South, as presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Anti-Personnel Weapon | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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