52 years ago:
Shaft (US)
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
1971-06-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/482
#Shaft #GordonParks #RichardRoundtree #MosesGunn #CharlesCioffi #MGM #ClassicFilm

3️⃣ Roth (#TonyCurtis) gets more to do than usual in this episode. He even gets to play action hero and rescue Dan. And the rest of the episode follows our hero as he chases the baddies and tries to save some kidnapped showgirls bound for the middle east.

4️⃣ There’s no subtlety here. The villains (#MosesGunn, #CesarRomero) are evil through and through. #BritLind (#HowTheWestWasWon) is the chief damsel in distress, but she does get to blow away one of the baddies.

3️⃣ Roth (#TonyCurtis) gets more to do than usual in this episode. He even gets to play action hero and rescue Dan. And the rest of the episode follows our hero as he chases the baddies and tries to save some kidnapped showgirls bound for the middle east.

4️⃣ There’s no subtlety here. The villains (#MosesGunn, #CesarRomero) are evil through and through. #BritLind (#HowTheWestWasWon) is the chief damsel in distress, but she does get to blow away one of the baddies.

34 years ago:
The Women of Brewster Place
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
1989-03-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/128578
#TheWomenofBrewsterPlace #DonnaDeitch #OprahWinfrey #RobinGivens #MosesGunn #ClassicMovies