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I said the message of "Dutchman" remains the same as on the stage, but there's a certain confusion here too. The action takes place entirely within a subway car. A young Negro (Al Freeman Jr.) is riding alone.
Dutchman is a 1967 British drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr. It was based on the 1964 play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Le Roi Jones), who wrote the screenplay adaptation.
Aug 11, 2020 · In “Dutchman,” a Black man named Clay meets a white woman named Lula, who correctly guesses personal information about him, tries to seduce him and denigrates him for being an Uncle Tom, all ...
With Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman, Robert Calvert. With the provocation of her lovely half-naked body and strikingly lascivious speech, Lula, a sinister, neurotic white girl, lures to his doom Clay, a good-looking young Black stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and starts mocking for wearing the clothes and ...
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Jul 20, 2020 · Dutchman is a 1967 British drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr. It was based on the play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (aka Le Roi Jones) who wrote the screenplay adaptation.
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. Harvey's transition from editor to director is a brilliantly spare, edgy adaptation of LeRoi Jones ' play, basically a two-hander set on a New York subway train: a grim duel between...
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A brutal 55-minute adaptation of the LeRoi Jones play. Shirley Knight is a white woman who verbally (and seductively) abuses a seemingly mild mannered black man (Al Freeeman Jr) on a NYC subway train. She's alternately taunting and teasing and when she goes too far, Freeman explodes in a fit of rage.
