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Blaxploitation Clip: If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968, Raymond St. Jacques and Barbara McNair) Black Film History. 44.8K subscribers. Subscribed. 97. 10K views 7 years ago.
- 9 min
- 10.5K
- Black Film History
Chester Himes’s "If He Hollers Let Him Go" explores the intense and often brutal reality of racial tension and systemic injustice in mid-20th-century America...
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!: Directed by Charles Martin. With Dana Wynter, Raymond St. Jacques, Kevin McCarthy, Barbara McNair. An escaped convict goes to a small town to clear his name; to pull off his plan, he becomes part of a murder plot.
- (175)
- Crime, Drama
- Charles Martin
- 1969-09-26
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James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter).
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- Dana Wynter
- Charles Martin
If He Hollers Let Him Go, first novel by Chester Himes, published in 1945, often considered to be his most powerful work. Bob Jones, a sensitive black man, is driven to the brink by the humiliation he endures from the racism he encounters while working in a defense plant during World War II.
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If He Hollers Let Him Go—which contains many autobiographical elements—is about a black shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II struggling against racism, as well as his own violent reactions to racism.
