Movie Review #29 Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Great White Hope, Come back Charleston Blue, Burnt Offerings, Sea Gypsies, and The Second Awakening of Christina Klages

A decade under the influence

Six more 70’s movie reviews for you, and they are more disconnected than usual. It doesn’t matter but usually our movie reviews have at least a lil thread that combines at least some of them, consciously or unconsciously. I guess 2 of these do, gawd. Anyway let’s start.

First up is (Cotton comes to Harlem 1970), an early blaxploitation film that is as weird as the term blaxploitation. We are ongoing in our efforts to unpack the term Blaxploitation, but we try to unpack this movie here today as best we can. Next up (The Great white hope 1970).

Here we have Darth Vader and Jane Alexander telling the true story of boxer Jack Johnson. Enter racism.

Movin along we have Gravedigger and Coffin back in (Come back Charleston blue 1972) I guess it’s a sequel? Next is (Burnt offerings 1976). Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Rocky’s coach, and the mighty mom from Butterflies are free, are coming and going from a house stuck in the twilight zone.

Almost done, and here’s (Sea gypsies 1978- AKA Shipwrecked) A hippie takes his two kids, a reporter, and a stowaway on a sailing trip around the world. I bet it’s gonna go great.

Ending things today we begin our journey through the 3 70’s film of German Director Margarethe Von Trotta. We oddly go 2/1/3 soooooo here’s (The second awakening of Christina Klages 1978), and I can at least say here that the films premise is a ten outta ten for me.

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