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Duke of Chicago is a 1949 American sports drama film directed by George Blair and starring Tom Brown, Audrey Long and DeForest Kelley.Produced and distributed by Republic Pictures the film portrays a retired boxer, Jimmy Brody (Brown), who leaves his boxing career for his fiancée but is lured back into a one-off fight against a current champion due to financial difficulties.
Fred Williamson stars as Duke Johnson, a former black activist who arrives in Bucktown to bury his brother, a bar owner who was killed for refusing to pay crooked white cops for protection. Duke realizes he needs help. After being threatened himself, he contacts his old friend Roy (Thalmus Rasulala) and his associates to come and help.
The Jeweller's Shop (Italian: La bottega dell'orefice) is a 1988 Italian-Austrian-Canadian-German drama film based on The Jeweler's Shop, a play written by Karol Józef Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) and scripted by Jeff Andrus, starring Burt Lancaster and Olivia Hussey, directed by Michael Anderson.
The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1]
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This is a list of films produced by the Dhallywood film industry of Dhaka, Bangladesh, ordered by year of release. Dhallywood films are generally listed under the Bengali language . Some films before 1971 mixed Urdu and Bengali language.
The English Teacher Artina Films Craig Zisk (director/screenplay); Dan Chariton, Stacy Chariton (screenplay); Julianne Moore , Michael Angarano , Greg Kinnear , Lily Collins , Nathan Lane , Jessica Hecht , Norbert Leo Butz , Nikki Blonsky , Erin Wilhelmi , Alan Aisenberg , Charlie Saxton , Sophie Curtis, Fiona Shaw , John Hodgman , Remy ...
Chi-Raq (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ r æ k / ⓘ) is a 2015 American musical crime comedy drama film, directed and produced by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee and Kevin Willmott.Set in Chicago, the film focuses on the gang violence prevalent in neighborhoods on the city's south side, particularly the Englewood neighborhood.