Five on the Black Hand Side
Five on the Black Hand Side
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Five on the Black Hand Side

DirectorOscar Williams

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6.8 / 10
1973
96 min
Comedy

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 (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973, trailer) [Leonard Jackson, Clarice Taylor, Glynn Turman]

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