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  • Director: George McCowan
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: War
  • Movie Type: Combat Films, War Adventure
  • Themes: Race Relations, Military Life
  • Release Year: 1969
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

With The Mod Squad sweeping the Tuesday night TV ratings in 1968, producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas hoped to get another multiracial adventure series on the air A.S.A.P. Carter's Army was the 72-minute pilot for this project. Set during World War II, the film stars Stephen Boyd as an Army captain who doesn't exactly dislike African Americans-it's just that he holds no special fondness for them. Naturally, Boyd is assigned an all-black company, and is forced to share his command with lieutenant Robert Hooks. Despite seething racial tensions, everyone pulls together to destroy an enemy dam. Originally telecast January 27, 1970, Carter's Army failed to spawn the planned series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Stephen Boyd - Capt. Beau Carter; Roosevelt Grier - Big Jim; Moses Gunn - Doc; Robert Hooks - Lt. Edward Wallace; Bobby Johnson - Robinson; Susan Oliver - Anna; Glynn E. Turman - George Brightman; Napoleon Whiting - Fuzzy; Billy Dee Williams - Lewis; Richard Pryor - Jonathan Crunk; Paul Stewart - Gen. Clark

Credit

Paul Sylos - Art Director, George McCowan - Director, George W. Brooks - Editor, Fred Steiner - Composer (Music Score), Arch R. Dalzell - Cinematographer, Danny Thomas - Producer, Aaron Spelling - Producer, Aaron Spelling - Screenwriter, David Kidd - Screenwriter

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Black Brigade

The movie cover for Black Brigade.
Directed by George McCowan
Produced by Aaron Spelling
Written by Aaron Spelling
David Kidd
Starring Stephen Boyd
Robert Hooks
Billy Dee Williams
Richard Pryor
Moses Gunn
Roosevelt Grier
Glynn Turman
Music by Fred Steiner
Distributed by American Broadcasting Company
Release date(s) January 27, 1970
Running time 70 min.
Language English

Black Brigade is the DVD release title of the television movie Carter's Army, which aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on January 27, 1970. The movie is a war drama that starred a host of prominent African-American film actors, including Richard Pryor, Rosie Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams and Moses Gunn.

Plot

A redneck officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of securing an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans are relegated to cleaning latrines and have little real military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice. He leads the rag-tag unit to secure the dam and they turn out to be heroic.

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