Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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Suitable Double Features

  1. Shaft/Dolemite
  2. Drive-In/Car Wash
  3. Help!/The Rescuers
  4. Payback/You’re Next
  5. Earthquake/Tremors
2864

Suitable Double Features

  1. Shaft/Dolemite
  2. Drive-In/Car Wash
  3. Help!/The Rescuers
  4. Payback/You’re Next
  5. Earthquake/Tremors
  6. The Searchers/Clue
2865

Suitable Double Features

  1. Shaft/Dolemite
  2. Drive-In/Car Wash
  3. Help!/The Rescuers
  4. Payback/You’re Next
  5. Earthquake/Tremors
  6. The Searchers/Clue
  7. The Black Hold/Gravity
2866

Suitable Double Features

  1. Shaft/Dolemite
  2. Drive-In/Car Wash
  3. Help!/The Rescuers
  4. Payback/You’re Next
  5. Earthquake/Tremors
  6. The Searchers/Clue
  7. The Black Hole/Gravity
  8. The Meaning of Life/Love, Actually
2867

Suitable Double Features

  1. Shaft/Dolemite
  2. Drive-In/Car Wash
  3. Help!/The Rescuers
  4. Payback/You’re Next
  5. Earthquake/Tremors
  6. The Searchers/Clue
  7. The Black Hole/Gravity
  8. The Meaning of Life/Love, Actually
  9. Whatever Happened to Gilbert Grape?/Down and Out in Beverly Hills
2868

Suitable Double Features

  1. Shaft/Dolemite
  2. Drive-In/Car Wash
  3. Help!/The Rescuers
  4. Payback/You’re Next
  5. Earthquake/Tremors
  6. The Searchers/Clue
  7. The Black Hole/Gravity
  8. The Meaning of Life/Love, Actually
  9. Whatever Happened to Gilbert Grape?/Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  10. The People under the Stairs/Out of Sight

Pass

2869

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
2870

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
2871

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics

starring Swedish-American actor Warner Oland as Charlie for the whole series

2872

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals

Eddie Cantor in blackface

2873

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals
  5. Holiday Inn

More blackface, this time Bing Crosby

2874

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals
  5. Holiday Inn
  6. The Birth of a Nation

THE racist movie

2875

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals
  5. Holiday Inn
  6. The Birth of a Nation
  7. West Side Story

Natalie Wood played a Puerto Rican.

2876

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals
  5. Holiday Inn
  6. The Birth of a Nation
  7. West Side Story
  8. Song of the South
2877

Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals
  5. Holiday Inn
  6. The Birth of a Nation
  7. West Side Story
  8. Song of the South
  9. Annie

Daddy Warbucks’s bodyguard is Punjab, ostensibly from India, but played by Trinidad-American Geoffrey Holder, best remembered for his 7-Up (“the uncola”) commercials.

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Racist portrayals that were not a big deal at the time…

  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  2. Check and Double Check
  3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  4. Roman Scandals
  5. Holiday Inn
  6. The Birth of a Nation
  7. West Side Story
  8. Song of the South
  9. Annie
  10. Tom & Jerry

In the original theatrical shorts, the domestic working in the house was Mammy Two Shoes. When the toons went to TV, Mammy was either edited out or replaced with a white Irish character.

Begorrah! The Irish in America

  1. The Devil’s Own
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Begorrah! The Irish in America

  1. The Devil’s Own
  2. Back to the Future 3
2880

Begorrah! The Irish in America

  1. The Devil’s Own
  2. Back to the Future 3
  3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2881

Begorrah! The Irish in America

  1. The Devil’s Own
  2. Back to the Future 3
  3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  4. Abie’s Irish Rose
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Begorrah! The Irish in America

  1. The Devil’s Own
  2. Back to the Future 3
  3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  4. Abie’s Irish Rose
  5. Far and Away