Amazing Grace
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Amazing Grace (1974, USA) is a Blaxploitation-Comedy film directed by Stan Lathan.
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Main Details
- Released in 1974 | Color
- Running time: 99 min
- Distribution Co: United Artists (1974) (USA) (theatrical)
- Directed by Stan Lathan
- Written by Matt Robinson
- Starring: Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash, Moses Gunn, James Karen, George Lee Miles, Gary Bolling, Dolph Sweet, Jon Richards, Stepin Fetchit, Butterfly McQueen
- Produced by Stan Lathan, Matt Robinson
- Original Music by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
- Cinematography by Edward R. Brown, Sol Negrin
- Film Editing by Paul L. Evans
Tagline
- Who's Comin' to Put an End to Dirty Tricks, Crooked Politicians and Lyin' Mayors! Who? America's Most Glamorous, Sexiest Female Superstar! "Moms" Mabley! It's About Time!
Synopsis
Amazing Grace is a 1974 comedy film featuring comedian Moms Mabley, playing the title role of Grace Teasdale Grimes. Grace is a widow who influences the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland after she discovers her somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being used to run for mayor by shady politicians and the incumbent mayor to further his own self-serving reelection efforts. (Wikipedia)