Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)

Comedy, General Film

Director: Oscar Williams

Writer(s): Charlie L. Russell (play, screenplay)

Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D’Urville Martin, Dick Anthony Williams, Sonny Jim Gaines, Ja’net DuBois, Bonnie Banfield, Frankie Crocker, Tchaka Almoravids, Carl Franklin, Cal Wilson, Philomena Nowlin, Brenda Sutton, Douglas Johnson, Ronald Warden, Jean Taylor, Rudy Joe Ringo, Fred D. Scott, Imamu Sukuma, Kwasi Badu

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 joins their three children in rebelling against her husband’s retrogressive behavior.

Release Date: October 25, 1973 (USA) | Length: 96 min | Genre: Comedy | Certificate: PG

Note: I didn’t find a picture of Charlie L. Russell but I found a reference in Jet Magazine that he was Bill Russell’s brother.