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11 de dic. de 1972 · Don't Play Us Cheap: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Thomas Anderson, Jay Van Leer, Robert Dunn, Mabel King. As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two imps take human form in order to break up the party.
Don't Play Us Cheap is a 1973 American musical comedy film based on the 1970 musical of the same name. The musical was written, produced, scored, edited and directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Both the original stage musical and the film adaptation are based on Van Peebles' 1967 French-language novel La fête à Harlem (1967).
Título original: Don't Play Us Cheap. Sinopsis: Versión cinematográfica del musical de Broadway de Melvin Van Peebles. Un par de demonios-murciélagos toman forma humana y se cuelan en una fiesta en una casa de Harlem en un intento de disolverla. ...
Year: 1972. Original title: Don't Play Us Cheap. Synopsis: Film version of Melvin Van Peebles' Broadway musical. A pair of devil-bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up.
The first Black-directed movie musical of the modern film era, Melvin Van Peebles’s drama illuminates the cultural and political concerns of working-class Black people with delight and fancy.
Don’t Play Us Cheap. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1972 • United States. Starring Joe Keyes Jr., Rhetta Hughes, Avon Long. Melvin Van Peebles’s film version of his own Tony Award–nominated Broadway musical is a bold blend of theater and nervy, New Wave–inflected cinematic invention.
Don't Play Us Cheap 1972 1h 30m Musical Comedy List Reviews 100% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Melvin Van Peebles wrote and directed this tale about two henchmen from hell who try to bust...
