Product: A Music Makers: A Man Called Adam (1966)
Rating: 5.0
Sammy's Oscar Worthy Performance
I've been trying to get TCM to show this movie for about a year now and they refuse to do so. I'm happy that it has finally been made available on dvd. Sammy's acting is absolutely superb in this film and he should've won an oscar that year for best actor. His final scene on stage is both sad and incredibly well acted. This movie has some of the greatest legends all in one film. There's Satchmo,Ossie Davis,Frank Sinatra Jr., Mel Torme,Peter Lawford,a very beautiful Cicely Tyson,Janet Du'Bois,Lola Falana,Johnny Brown,and Sammy's music director George Rhodes. Look for Morgan Freeman as an extra in a club scene and also Albert'Poppy'Popwell as an extra. Albert played in several Clint Eastwood movies (once as a pimp,one as a bank robber, and once as a fellow cop friend of Dirty Harry's.What a great film that at least should be shown on the Black networks.