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DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...
DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brief, brutal encounter on a subway train that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching around a curve...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time it is LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brutal brief encounter in the subway that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching through a curve...
Dutchman is a racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a volt jolt from the third rail. Adapted for $60,000 from LeRoi Jones's one-act play, the film describes in 55 minutes the brutal brief encounter between a black man and a white woman who meet in a subway car somewhere under Manhattan. The man (Al Freeman Jr.) looks like a young intellectual; the woman (Shirley Knight) acts like a maniac in a miniskirt. Smiling and snarling, she flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips...