So I'm spending a too-large portion of my Memorial Day weekend taking in some of the $1 blaxploitation DVDs on sale at the local Fiesta. I'm not sure why there's a rack full of these, but I'm going to tag the folks at EastWest DVD as patron saints of the clown crew. If there's a movie from the 70s that was so craptacular it was never heard of (think "beneath the category of Fish that Saved Pittsburgh"), these guys found the wherewithal to turn it into a crappy DVD. For a buck, it's hard to argue that I didn't get more than my money's worth after watching Amazing Grace. This one was actually much better than I anticipated and stars Slappy White and Moms Mabley. If that last name doesn't ring a bell, by all means Google it up. She's got quite a rich history and this was her final film. Yes, there's actually a sappiness factor in this movie ... as well as countless laughs that will be evident from a few clips I'll post tomorrow.
As I type, I'm in the early minutes of a doozy called Darktown Strutters. I'm going to refer to this as the "Black Apple" and force it on the next ClownFest ... whenever or however that happens. Of course, when I check IMDB to dig a little deeper into Darktown Strutters, I've got a question for Ralphie ...
Explain your whereabouts in 1974/1975! Check the credits for "Art Direction" and you'll see why.
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I have it on good authority that Ralphieboy was somewhere in what is now known as Belize at about that time. Or about 8 miles west of Belize City, anyway. There was a dirt strip serving a few patched-up Avro's and he officed in one of the hangars there as the Che Guevara Resident Fellow for Counterfeit Baby Formula Revenue at the local Municipal Utility District.
That's what this guy named Dave down at Slider's told me, anyway.