Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Also Known As: Jitu Cumbuka
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Birthday: March 04, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Brian's Song
Overview: Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-30
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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
Overview: A doctor in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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Bound for Glory
Overview: A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-05
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Mandingo
Overview: Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Walk Proud
Overview: A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Covenant
Overview: A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Caged in Paradiso
Overview: A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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The Blue Knight
Overview: In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of his partner.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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Glitch!
Overview: Two thieves rob a large fancy house when the owner is away. But when a visitor mistakes them for the owner, and they find out about a casting party mis-scheduled for that day, they decide to stick around for the fun. There's only one small problem, a little glitch in their plan. The real owners owe some bad dudes a lot of money, and they show up to collect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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Midnight Edition
Overview: After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses, but it may be too late to save his family.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Brewster's Millions
Overview: Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-22
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Out of Bounds
Overview: Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Flesh & Blood
Overview: A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-14
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Bachelor Party
Overview: On the eve of his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, unassuming nice guy Rick is dragged out for a night of debauchery by his friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-29
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Maurie
Overview: When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Death Ray 2000
Overview: A flamboyant secret agent from UNIT, a secret counterespionage group, teams with a lady spy to retrieve a stolen device capable of destroying the world from the clutches of a sinister munitions magnate. Pilot film for the television series "A Man Called Sloane" (1979).
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-05
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The Nightingale
Overview: A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-10
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Overview: In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Trader Horn
Overview: During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Up the Sandbox
Overview: Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Mandrake
Overview: Mandrake, a famous magician, and his assistant, Lothar, come to the aid of an amusement-park owner who is being blackmailed by a madman who is killing the park's customers until he gets his money.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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Doin' Time
Overview: Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-19
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The Jericho Mile
Overview: A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the Olympic team.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Volunteers
Overview: After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Uptight
Overview: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Last of the Good Guys
Overview: Comedy-drama about a bunch of police rookies who conspire to convince their hard-nosed sergeant that a seriously ill fellow officer, two weeks away from retirement, is on the job, and who, when he suddenly dies, try to hide the fact so that his family can collect his full benefits.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-07
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Blacula
Overview: An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Outrageous Fortune
Overview: Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Fun with Dick and Jane
Overview: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Lost in the Stars
Overview: A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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Change of Habit
Overview: Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would not be well received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Angela
Overview: A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-10
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