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Ron Cutler (screenplay)
Ron Cutler (story)
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Ain't no one crosses WILLIE "D" more
Plot:
A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways. | add synopsis
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Bring me some scratch more (13 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Roscoe Orman | ... | William Andrew Short aka Willie Dynamite |
 | Diana Sands | ... | Cora |
| Thalmus Rasulala | ... | Robert Daniels |
| Joyce Walker | ... | Pashen |
| Roger Robinson | ... | Bell |
 | George Murdock | ... | Celli |
 | Albert Hall | ... | Pointer |
| Norma Donaldson | ... | Honey |
| Juanita Brown | ... | Sola |
| Royce Wallace | ... | Mrs. Short - Willie's Mother |
| Judith M. Brown | ... | Gorgia |
| Marilyn Coleman | ... | Connie |
| Mary Charlotte Wilcox | ... | Scatback |
| Marcia McBroom | ... | Pearl |
| Jack Bernardi | ... | Willie's Lawyer |
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102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Continuity: When Willie is talking to Cora at the end of the movie, there is a light scar along his right cheek. As he's leaving her apartment, the scar not only gets noticeably worse, but additional scars also mysteriously appear on his forehead and nose. Yet when Willie comes out of the apartment building to see his car being towed, all of the scars are gone. more
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Featured in "TCM Underground: Willie Dynamite/Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (#1.61)" (2009) more
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King Midas more
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A classic 70's Blaxploitation film. Pimps as colorful as peacocks with land cruisers dressed in chrome.
Roscoe Orman (Gordon from Sesame Street) plays Willie, a pimp who has the patter down pat and the clothing that rivals anything that your imagination can come up with. He runs afoul of a determined social worker and the police, both determined to bring him down. They use every trick in the book to make his life hell and bring on him the wrath of his fellow pimps.
Diana Sands, who was one of the top black actresses of the 50s and 60s, shined as the social worker. This was one of her last films as she died of cancer before its release. She was 39.
Like Al Capone, Willie's downfall was the IRS.