A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.
Acting
Moms Mabley's final film—her timing sharper than politicians half her age.
Writing
Satire that drags 1970s machine politics with zero subtlety.
Director
Stan Lathan
Slappy White
Forthwith Wilson
Moms Mabley
Grace
Stepin Fetchit
Cousin Lincoln
James Karen
Annenberg
Gary Bolling
William
Moses Gunn
Welton J Waters
Rosalind Cash
Creola Waters
Butterfly McQueen
Clarine
Dolph Sweet
Mayer Scott
George Lee Miles
Blaney
Tamu Blackwell
Girl in church pew
Art Evans
Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
Debbi Morgan
Morgan State Student (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was comedy legend Moms Mabley's only starring film role at age 74, after five decades in Black vaudeville and 'chitlin circuit' fame.
Stepin Fetchit's casting was deliberately provocative—he built his career on 'lazy Negro' stereotypes, and his presence here forces uncomfortable questions about who gets to satirize whom.
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