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Coonskin is a 1975 American live-action/animated satirical crime film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film references the Uncle Remus folk tales, and satirizes the blaxploitation film genre as well as Disney's film Song of the South, adapted from the Uncle Remus folk tales. [1] .
Because everybody has tried to get his hand in the money pot and nobody (the filmmakers excepted) has had the wit or courage to see the movie in a true light, “Coonskin” looks doomed.
While this film was an animated feature, none of the stories or plot depicted is entirely fiction. The film truly is a woven basket of oral traditions, revamped into an adult world, spinning tales from real events.
Coonskin: Directed by Ralph Bakshi. With Barry White, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas. Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.
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- Animation, Action, Comedy
- Ralph Bakshi
- 1975-08-20
Summaries. Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police. A multi-layered satire of race relations in America.
Coonskin is a 1975 American live action / animated satire crime film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi, about an African American rabbit, fox, and bear who rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering corrupt law enforcement, con artists, and the Mafia.
An old-timer (Scatman Crothers) tells a fable of brothers Bear, Fox and Rabbit in Harlem. Rent Coonskin on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Out of all of his films, Ralph Bakshi himself ...
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