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VHS : Scott JoplinIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Eubie Blake, Godfrey Cambridge directed by: Jeremy Kagan  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0096898609135 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: January 30, 2001 Running Time: 96 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1977 Sales Rank: 13156 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Scot JoplinI was thrilled to acquire this wonderful film about a great black musician. I have played his music on the piano for years, so when I first saw this movie on TV many years ago, I was ecstatic. When I finally purchased the VCR, I took it to my workplace (in this case, a men's prison) and had it shown to the inmates during "Black History week" over the prison's video system. I was proud to show a quality movie to an inmate population that was beter than 50% black. They really enjoyed and appreciated ... Read More Rating:  - Scott Joplin Biography Motion Picture 1977Scott Joplin (1977) is not a TV movie as described in another reviewers article below. This bio pic of the great ragtime composer was theatrically release in 1977 by Universal Pictures. It did eventually show on NBC TV in 1978. Scott Joplin was a joint venture between Universal Pictures and Motown Productions. However the director Jeremy Kagan did do a lot of TV films. He also has worked with Art Carney in the film "Katherine". His best known film would probably be "The Chosen" with Robby ... Read More Rating: - Tuneful, if inaccurate, biography of a musical geniusWhen writing Hollywood biopics, the unwritten rule seems to be, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story." Truth, half-truth and outright legend have equal value. It is, for some reason, particularly true of TV-movie bios, and this 1977 TV-movie version of ragtime giant Scott Joplin's life story stands as a glaring example. If you're looking for the *real* story of Joplin's life, you won't find it here. To be fair, even more recent biographers have trouble with most of Joplin's early ... Read More Rating:  - Williams can do SO much better!I got this tape in an attempt to find something worthwhile to show my Jazz History class. Sadly, there's little here of factual "history" about Scott Joplin. The dialogue and direction were pretty poor, events jump from one to another with little explanation of what happens in between, and Billy Dee Williams' acting is terrible. I grant that he's pretty young here, but still...I'm going to chalk it up to a poor script, because I know he can do MUCH better than this stinker. Add to that the fact that he is ... Read More Rating: - The quest to be better than a clown.I was particularly impressed by the constant reference to professors in this film. In the setting that Scott Joplin was coming from, where big money was looking for fun and the music was incidental, the guys who played the piano were called professors, and they called their competition a cutting contest. Scott Joplin's music was good enough to win a contest, but he did best when he teamed up with a young professor who could give it zest. Taj Mahal appears in this film as a musical clown in a series of performers ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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