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Finding Buck McHenry

Finding Buck McHenry
Type : Telefilm
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2000
Format : Feature
Running time : 94 (in minutes)

In this Showtime television movie, Davis plays a school custodian who may have been a star in the Negro Leagues. Dee, who had starred opposite Jackie Robinson in his film biography a half-century earlier, comes full circle, playing opposite her husband (Davis) and the great Chicago Cubs infielder Ernie Banks, whose career was made possible by Robinson's courageous precedent.

94 min. 2000. USA.

Directed by Charles Burnett.

avec Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Ernie Banks, Michael Schiffman.

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