Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what little it's worth, a black cat of a preacher (Calvin Lockhart) collects $87,000 from Harlem residents for a back-to-Africa movement, then gets involved in a blood-spattered holdup while making off with the loot. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques are the soul detectives that set about tracking him. It is at best a rickety track. Cambridge is a terribly funny comedian and a terribly unconvincing actor; St. Jacques is a splendid dramatic actor who comes on as a melodramatic heavy in such a farce. Everything that happens is supposed to be very, very...
...Supreme Court ruling, Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas Judge Leo Weinrott was confronted with Defendant George Kenney, who kept yelling at potential jurors and told the judge to "go to hell" during the early stages of his trial for killing a liquor-store clerk during a holdup. After giving several warnings, Weinrott successfully silenced Kenney by ordering his mouth bandaged...