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Five on the Black Hand Side

Release Date:October 25, 1973

Running Time:96 min

Genres:Comedy

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Cast

Clarice Taylor Leonard Jackson Virginia Capers Glynn Turman Dick Anthony Williams Carl Franklin Ja'net DuBois D'Urville Martin Godfrey Cambridge Sonny Jim Gaines Bonnie Banfield Frankie Crocker

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Synopsis

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.

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