By RM
saturday, february 7, 2026 at 1:51:00 p.m. est
dutchman (complete video)
Here's the link again to dutchman, which I described as transcending its author's anti-White racism and ending up as something unique and gripping, with two terrific performances (and besides her acting, Shirley Knight is quite an eyeful!). Only 54 minutes long-give it a try!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdIUJEBjJko
I had originally mentioned that LeRoi Jones was on Susskind saying blacks and Whites should live separately, opposite Norman Mailer, who argued for the reverse!
-RM
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First thing,that's Al Freeman,right?
--GRA
Eleven minutes in,I'm thinking nowadays Freeman would have a gas can and a lighter.
--GRA
16 minutes in:I've seen two person cast plays like this and the ebb and flow between the two characters is dizzying. They get along,she gets mad,they make up etc.
She's pretty much nuts. In 1967,were there blacks on subways who talked like this? Are there any now?
--GRA
45 minutes:They're BOTH nuts,lol. NOW the gas can comes out,lol. But the blackie is always crazier than a White,so this part rings true.
--GRA
I like 1967 movies--especially,the raw style in which they were made and this one fits the times. Worth watching.
Four stars out of five.
--GRA
I remembered Al Freeman from an abc series called "HOT L Baltimore"--back(in 1975) when certain items sank into my brain for life. That show was a "comedy" about residents of a slum hotel and was promoted heavily as a "breakthrough" for television(more blacks and spics). I watched it the few times it was on(I believe on a Friday night)and kept waiting to see brilliance. There wasn't any--and it was cancelled fairly quickly.
--GRA
Thanks for watching and commenting!
It's sort of like "No Exit" in a subway car. I can relate to the anger at how (some) women treat men and use them, especially men who are repressed.
-RM
Didn't see it, but read about it- that was Norman Lear trying to push the envelope again (it had gay stuff in it besides the minority "humor"). It was either a few years ahead of its time or awful- probably both.
-RM
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