Don't play us cheap / Movin On Distribution presents ; a Yeah production ; a film of Melvin Van Peebles ; written, composed, produced, directed and edited by Melvin Van Peebles.
Container of (work): Don't play us cheap (Motion picture) Melvin Van Peebles essential films.
Notes:
Joseph Keyes, Rhetta Hughes, Avon Long, Esther Rolle, Thomas Anderson, Joshie Jo Armstead, Nate Barnett, Frank Carey, Robert Dunn, Maybel King, George Oopee McCurn, Jay Vanleer. Title from title frames. Released as part of the five-disc Blu-ray boxed set Melvin Van Peebles essential films. Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Blu-ray special edition features: 4K digital restoration, approved by filmmaker Mario Van Peebles in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art; Introduction by director Melvin Van Peebles from 1997; episode of Black Journal from 1972, featuring an interview with Van Peebles and musical performances by the film's cast.
Summary:
"Melvin Van Peebles's film version of his own Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, Don't Play Us Cheap, is a bold blend of theater and nervy cinematic invention. A cast of Black stage and screen luminaries including Esther Rolle, Mabel King, and Avon Long stars in this charmingly offbeat, fablelike fantasy in which a pair of mischief-making devil-bats dispatched by Satan assume human form in order to wreak havoc on a Saturday-night house party in Harlem--only to find their diabolical plan thwarted by their hosts' infectious generosity of spirit. Staged with ebullience, the original blues- and gospel-infused songs by Van Peebles burst forth in a life-affirming celebration of Black joy, tenderness, resilience, and strength"--Container.
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