Black rebels / screenplay by Morris Lee Green ; story by William Rowland and Irma Berk ; added scenes created and directed by William Rowland ; produced by William Rowland ; directed by Richard L. Bare. Murder in Mississippi / written by Herbert S. Altman ; produced by Herbert S. Altman, J.P. Mawra ; directed by J.P. Mawra.

Black rebels: "'We don't want your kind around here....' When drug-dealing Buck kills the boyfriend of Lola Montalvo (West Side Story Oscar winner Rita Moreno) then pins the rap on her brother, Lola seeks revenge by pretending to love Buck -- moments after Buck's former girlfriend (Dyan Cannon!) tri...

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Corporate Author: Something Weird Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Green, Maury, Rowland, William, 1900-1983, Berk, Irma, Bare, Richard L., Moreno, Rita, Damon, Mark, 1933-, Mohr, Gerald, 1914-1968, Cannon, Dyan, Rose, David, 1910-1990, Altman, Herbert S., Mawra, J. P. (Joseph P.), Crane, Derek, Britton, Sheilla, Stewart, Sam
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Something Weird Video, [2005], ©2005.
Edition:Special edition.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations > Drama.
Feature films > United States.
Exploitation films.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films
Exploitation films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (177 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Sinful South double feature.
Format: Video DVD
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Black rebels: "'We don't want your kind around here....' When drug-dealing Buck kills the boyfriend of Lola Montalvo (West Side Story Oscar winner Rita Moreno) then pins the rap on her brother, Lola seeks revenge by pretending to love Buck -- moments after Buck's former girlfriend (Dyan Cannon!) tries to stick a switchblade in his back! All of which culminates in a race riot at the home of a high-school rich kid involving black, white, and Mexican gangs, undercover cops, Lola's poor ol' papa, and even a pool full of naked girls...."--Container.
Murder in Mississippi: "Voter registration leads to MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI when a 'cracker' Sheriff arrests white dilettante Carol Byrd and two other 'Communist Yankees' for 'agitating colored folks.' Though her friends are killed, Carol is kept alive as the personal sex slave of two white-trash cretins in this nasty lesson in racial intolerance..."--Container.
Note:Black rebels originally produced as a motion picture in 1959 by the All Gods Children Company, also known as Lola's mistake, Three shades of love; originally released as This rebel breed. Murder in Mississippi originally produced as a motion picture in 1956, also known as Murder Mississippi.
Special features include theatrical trailer for Black rebels under the alternate title Lola's mistake; bonus racially-tense trailers for: The color of her skin, Free white and 21, High yellow, The hookers, and My baby is black!; 1937 U.S. Department of Agriculture short: The Negro farmer; gallery of drive-in exploitation art with audio oddities.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.R23 B553 2005 VideoDVD
CN4 D0061057 VideoDVD
Credits:Black rebels: Music by David Rose ; director of photography, Monroe Askins ; film editor, Tony Martinelli.
Murder in Mississippi: Camera, Warner Rose ; film editor, J.P. Mawra ; music, Joe Lesko.
System Details:DVD (NTSC, region 1); mono.
Cast:
Black rebels: Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Dyan Cannon.
Murder in Mississippi: Derrek Crane, Shiella Britton, Sam Stewart.