The Sty of the Blind Pig
The Sty of the Blind Pig
1974
Drama
TV Movie
An uprooted African-American family is forced to confront their traditional values and ponder the effect that the emerging civil rights movement will have on their lives after relocating from the deep-south to Chicago in the filmed version of Phillip Hayes Dean's insightful and acclaimed stage play.
Directed by:
Ivan Dixon
30 total credits
Credits include: A Raisin in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, Car Wash, Nothing But a Man and The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Writer:
Phillip Hayes Dean
3 total credits
Credits include: Paul Robeson, The Sty of the Blind Pig and Freeman
Starring:
Scatman Crothers
56 total credits
Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter, actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When". Scatman Crothers died at age 76 of pneumonia and lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, California on November 22, 1986.
9 total credits
Credits include: The Jerk, Across 110th Street, Mandingo, The Learning Tree and Brother John
19 total credits
Credits include: To Sleep with Anger, Sunshine State, Beat Street, A Different World and Down in the Delta
28 total credits
Credits include: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Written on the Wind, Airport '77, A Star Is Born and Susan Slept Here
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Directed by:
Ivan Dixon 30 total credits
Credits include: A Raisin in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, Car Wash, Nothing But a Man and The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Writer:
Phillip Hayes Dean 3 total credits
Credits include: Paul Robeson, The Sty of the Blind Pig and Freeman
Starring:
Scatman Crothers 56 total credits
Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter, actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When". Scatman Crothers died at age 76 of pneumonia and lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, California on November 22, 1986.
9 total credits
Credits include: The Jerk, Across 110th Street, Mandingo, The Learning Tree and Brother John
19 total credits
Credits include: To Sleep with Anger, Sunshine State, Beat Street, A Different World and Down in the Delta
28 total credits
Credits include: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Written on the Wind, Airport '77, A Star Is Born and Susan Slept Here
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