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Overview

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Director:
John Badham
Writers:
Hal Barwood (writer)
William Brashler (novel)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
17 November 1976 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy | Sport more
Tagline:
They put the ball in baseball. more
Plot:
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Bingo Long... more (7 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Billy Dee Williams ... Bingo Long (P)

James Earl Jones ... Leon Carter, All-Star (C)

Richard Pryor ... Charlie Snow / Carlos Nevada / Chief Takahoma, All-Star (RF)
Rico Dawson ... Willie Lee Shively, All-Star (RF)
Sam 'Birmingham' Brison ... Louis Keystone, All-Star (SS)

Jophery C. Brown ... Emory 'Champ' Chambers, All-Star (3B)
Otis Day ... Rainbow, All-Star (bat boy)
Leon Wagner ... Fat Sam Popper, All-Star (1B)
Tony Burton ... Issac, All-Star (CF)(C)
John McCurry ... Walter Murchman, All-Star (LF)
Stan Shaw ... Esquire Joe Callaway, All-Star (CF)
Ted Ross ... Sallison 'Sallie' Potter, Owner of Ebony Aces
Mabel King ... Bertha Dewitt, Owner of Charcoal Kings
Sam Laws ... Henry Dunbar, Owner of Baltimore Elite Giants
Alvin Childress ... Horace Quigley, Owner of Atlanta Black Crackers
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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Macon, Georgia, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Steven Spielberg was initially very interesting in directing, but the massive success of Jaws (1975) meant that he was able to get any project of his own off the ground, and decided to make Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)instead. more
Quotes:
Leon Carter, All-Star: [after Esquire Joe bowls him over with a slide at the plate] Say, boy - does you do this constantly?
Esquire Joe Callaway, All-Star: No, suh. I does it all the time.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Century of Black Cinema (2003) (V) more

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Bingo Long..., 12 May 1999
Author: Tim Cox from Marietta, OH

Highly entertaining film about a renegade black baseball team that breaks through barriers in 1939, when black ball players where shunned out of white controlled leagues. Williams stands out as their razzle-dazzle leader. The almost black cast that also features Jones, Pryor and Tony Burton are superb.

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