Fred williamson is one mean dude who uses the skills he learned in vietnam to fight it out in the worlds toughest battlefield the urban jungle. Stuart maxwell whitman born february 1, 1928 is an american actor. Mean girls 2 2011 1080p webrip dual audio hindi english dd 5. Sleepers west lloyd nolan, lynn bari, mary beth hughes.
After several seasons as a defensive player on such teams as the oakland raiders and the kansas city chiefs during the. A vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of doublecrossers. As played by blaxploitation star fred williamson, johnny barrows is a former football great who later served in. Former nfl star fred williamson making his debut as a director is johnny barrows, a soldier dishonorably discharged from the army. Did you know he was in an episode of the original star trek series. Gordon staples and the string thing mean johnny barrows.
Mean johnny barrows 1976 r 01021976 us action, crime, drama 1h 30m user score. Johnny barrows fred williamson was 2 years allstate running back and earned a silver star in the military. Overview of mean johnny barrows, 1976, directed by fred williamson, with luther adler, roddy mcdowall, elliott gould, at turner classic movies. He is known for playing marshal jim crown on the western television series cimarron strip 1967. Share meet johnny barrows on dvd with roody mcdowall fred williamson d58. Mean johnny barrows is a classic blaxploitation film from the 70s and its not so bad. Overview for fred williamson turner classic movies. Fred williamson is an actor and former professional football player who developed a successful film career by writing, producing, and directing many of the films in which he performed. His first film as a producer was boss nigger 1975, a western directed by jack arnold. Hollywood show celebrity autographs signing convention. Meet johnny barrows on dvd with roody mcdowall fred. The major fight scene at the end of the movie is a complete. Mean johnny barrows is a very slow paced film with too many scenes of the main character wandering the streets looking for work, while trying to find meaning. After being arrested for being drunk while black, johnny reluctantly enters a mob war as a white on white ht man who never gets so much as a grass stain on his pants.
Dressed to kill full movie basil rathbone nigel bruce tcc ai color duration. In mean johnny barrows 1975 whitman costars as a crime boss with fred williamson. Jesse crowder fred williamson is a nononsense tough guy. Mean johnny barrows is a 1976 american crime drama film starring fred williamson, who also directed the film. Mean johnny barrows 1976 was a significant predecessor of the rambo films with its violent vietnam vet story. Benedict high schools cheerleaders are not shy or sweet. But it is fun, goofy, dumb, sleazy, cheap, silly and thrilling. He got the picture made on his own terms, and his stamp is all over it. Mean johnny barrows starring fred williamson roddy mcdowell stuart whitman luther adler jenny sherman and special guest star elliot gould. Armstrong, elliott gould, and mike henry the billion dollar fire 1976 with woody strode, tony kendall, and gordon mitchell. Theodore rasputin waterhouse 1975 whiffs dudley frapper 1975 nashville elliott gould 1975.
Johnny barrows played by fred the hammer williamson is dishonorably discharged from the army for punching out a fellow officer. With fred williamson, roddy mcdowall, stuart whitman, anthony caruso. Williamson directed a total of four films in 76, so many that it almost seems like he was working on multiple. Throughout this extended, tenminute long scene, a jazzy uptempo disco song. Johnny is a vietnam vet who earns a dishoronable discharge and is sent back to the states where in 1970 not only is hard for a black man to get a job but a vet with a bcd, no way, so he joins the.
The football team knows them well and billy, the schools disturbed janitor, would like to. Mean johnny barrows 1976 directed by fred williamson. In addition to his career as an actor, fred williamson has also served as director, producer, and writer for a number of films. A mobster stuart whitman offers him a job in the syndicate to kill the rival drugrunning davinci family led by roddy mcdowall, planet of the apes. Whitman also starred with john wayne in the western film, the comancheros 1961, and received top billing as the romantic lead in the film those magnificent men in their flying machines 1965. Features included funny lady 1975, mean johnny barrows 1976, embryo 1976, sixth and main 1977, laserblast 1978, rabbit test 1978, the cat from outer space 1978 for disney, circle of iron 1978, scavenger hunt 1979, nutcracker fantasy 1979 doing voice over for the english language edition, and disneys the black hole 1979. When he returns home, he is mugged and thrown in jail. Elliott gould full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Mean johnny barrows 1976 r 1h 30min action, crime, drama january 1976 usa johnny barrows, a g. For the right pair of eyes that delight in the subtle contextual appreciations of blaxploitation, crimemob pictures, or just choice 1970s. His second film as producer was with mean johnny barrows 1976, a predecessor of the rambo films which similarly featured a violent vietnam vet plot though the novel first blood on which the film first blood was based was written in 1972. Mean johnny barrows 1976 johnny barrows played by fred williamson is unjustly thrown out of the army, he returns home and winds up being a gas station attendant.
Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. With mean johnny barrows, though, he did something he hadnt done before and assumed the mantle of director for the first time. Department of afroamerican research arts culture 4,7 views. Naturally, a man with barrows rough background is hired as a mob enforcer. Because of his military training, a mobster wants to hire him as a hit man. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road.
Mean johnny barrows 1976 by rarelust january 8, 2015 5. Total number of members who have this title in their. Mean johnny barrows 1976 dvd roddy mcdowall actor, fred williams actor, director rated. Johnny goes to viet nam, wins a silver star, but punches out his racist c. Wanting to disassociate himself with the socalled blaxploitation genre and be recognized as an allaround action film star, fred the hammer williamson made his directorial debut with mean johnny barrows, a film he also starred in and produced for his newly formed company, po boy. Mean johnny barrows 1975 cast and crew a vietnam veteran fred williamson gets caught in a mob war with a couple of doublecrossers jenny sherman, roddy. Continue reading tagged 1970s, blaxploitation, english, usa very mean men 2000 by rarelust january 3, 2015 5.
A special magnum for tony saitta 1976 with john saxon, martin landau, tisa farrow, jean leclerc, and gayle hunnicutt mean johnny barrows 1976 with fred williamson, roddy mcdowall, r. With the second film he produced he also debuted as a director. Mean johnny barrows 1976 after being dishonorably discharged from the military, the title character returns to civilian life with no job prospects other than working for an antidrug mob. I, is dishonorably discharged from the army after striking his commanding officer. Down on his luck and with no money, he gets a job at a gas station run by a racist jerk. Jenny sherman is an actress, known for mean johnny barrows 1975, magnum, p. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance. William smith, and he began his directing career with mean johnny barrows 1976. Delta force commandodeadly impactmean johnny barrows dvd trending price. Williamson is one of the most prolific actors of the seventies, starring in six movies in 1976 alone. Elliott gould list of movies and tv shows tv guide. Johnny barrows is a former football star, but he had to drop out because of an unspecified scandal involving a coed im guessing white girl. The action sequences are few and far between and the special effects if you can call them special are extremely low budget. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of the best movies ever made only at tcm.
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