Five on the black hand side
By: a Brock Peters-Michael Tolan production ; produced in association with the Petersen Company ; screenplay by Charlie L. Russell ; produced by Brock Peters and Michael Tolan ; directed by Oscar Williams
Contributors: Taylor, Clarice, 1927-2011, actor; Jackson, Leonard, actor; Capers, Virginia, 1925-2004, actor; Turman, Glynn, actor; Martin, D'Urville, 1939-1984, actor; Polito, Gene, director photography; Economou, Michael (Film editor), editor of moving image work; Barnum, H. B., composer (expression); United Artists Corporation; Olive Films
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 96
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Drama; African American men; African American families; African American women
Other titles: 5 on the black hand side
Work titles: Five on the black hand side (Motion picture)
Description: In the Brooks family, Papa may rule with an iron fist ... but Mama's about to slap him down with her open hand! Tired of being told what to do and when to do it, she goes to war! Swapping her old housedress for army-green duds and combing her tidily coiffed head into a ceiling-scraping 'fro, she takes to the roof on strike ... until her browbeating, penny-pinching, gas-passing husband agrees to meet her bill of rights!
Notes: Based on the play by Charlie L. Russell.

Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 1973.

Wide screen (1.85:1)

Includes trailer.

Director of photography, Gene Polito; music, H.B. Barnum; editor, Michael Economou; released by United Artists Corporation.

Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD, region 1, wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby mono.

English with optional English subtitles.