Baby Needs A New Pair of Shoes
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Baby Needs A New Pair of Shoes (1974, USA) is a Blaxploitation-Crime film directed by Bill Brame.
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Main Details
- Released in 1974
- Color
- Running Time: 86 Min
- Production Co: First American Films | Ransom
- Directed by Bill Brame
- Written by Howard Ransom, Elizabeth Ransom, Fredricka DeCosta
- Starring Frank DeKova, Paul Harris, Frances E. Williams, Reginald Farmer, Don Edmondson, Larry Greene, Ernie Lee Banks , Karmello Brooks
- Produced by Edith Ransom, Howard Ransom
- Music by Phil Moore
- Cinematography by Robert Caramico
- Film Editing by Bill Brame, Rudolph Cusumano
Also Known As
- USA (reissue title) - Get Nigger Rich on Number 666
- USA (reissue title) - Jive Turkey
Taglines
- 7 Seven, Come Eleven 11
- Feeling great...Walking tall...Hit my number, That's all!
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Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes is one of Blaxploitation’s most obscure (and twisted) entries. Released in 1974 first as Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (an appropriation of a gambling phrase), then as the more hip-sounding Jive Turkey and, finally, as (the purposely controversial) Nigger Rich (!), budget filmmaker Bill (Miss Melody Jones) Bramme’s look at feuding mob factions—one black, one white, is a clever, violent, vulgar and shoddy little picture, a "true story"....FULL REVIEW