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Trick Baby

 
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Trick Baby

  • Director: Larry Yust
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Crime
  • Movie Type: Crime Drama, Blaxploitation
  • Themes: Cons and Scams, Race Relations
  • Main Cast: Bob Brooker, Ronald Carter, Celeste Creech, Father James Kelly, Tony Mazzadra, Jacqueline Weiss, Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart
  • Release Year: 1972
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

The Double Con is an alternate title for the blaxploitationer Trick Baby. Jan Leighton and Byron Sander star as a pair of African American con artists. One of the slicksters can pass for white, enabling the two to pull off any number of clever race-related scams. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

  • Kiel Martin - Johnny "Folks" O'Brien
  • Mel Stewart - "Blue" Howard
John Aquino - Frank; Dick Boccelli - Vincent; Anthony Charnota - Bobby; Don Fellows - Phillips; Clebert Ford - Josephus; Jim King - Duke; Ted Lange - Melvin the Pimp; Jim Mapp - Doc; Byron Sanders - Parkview Clerk; Donald Symington - Morrison; Vernée Watson - Cleo Howard; Charles Weldon - Tough; Tom Anderson - Felix the Fixer; Charles G. Clarke - Cab Driver; Beverly Ballard - Susan; Dallas Edwards Hayes - Dot Murray; Fuddly Bagley - Percy; David Thomas - Frascatti; Bob Brooker - DuSable Clerk; Ronald Carter - Bartender; Celeste Creech; Father James Kelly - Priest; Tony Mazzadra - Nino Parelli; Jacqueline Weiss - Aunt Rose

Credit

Larry Yust - Director, Peter Parasheles - Editor, James Bond - Composer (Music Score), Isidore Mankofsky - Cinematographer, Marshal Backlar - Producer, John Brasher - Sound/Sound Designer, Larry Yust - Screenwriter, A. Neuberg - Screenwriter, T. Raewyn - Screenwriter, Iceberg Slim - Book Author

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