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Bookmark this pageBlues Under the Skin (1972)
Director: Robert Manthoulis
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From Time Out Film Guide
A mixture of documentary and fiction that alternates between bluesmen - from those on the chain gangs right up to BB King - singing and talking about their work, and a classic blues story set in Harlem about a girl who quits her man. The mixture is not a wholly comfortable one, the story and the acting of the young couple being too self-conscious to stand up to the naturalness of the bluesmen themselves. But the music survives on its own, and Amelia Cortez, a real old blues lady playing the mother-in-law, holds the story together with her reminiscences.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Manthoulis
Cast: Amelia Cortez, Onike Lee, Roland Sanchez, BB King, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Mance Lipscomb, Furry Lewis full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 88 mins
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