Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
Acting
Bernie Casey and Vonetta McGee smolder with restrained, doomed intensity.
Direction
Barron shoots prison claustrophobia like a pressure cooker about to blow.
Director
Arthur Barron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Angela Davis herself was in prison when this film was released, awaiting trial on conspiracy charges that were later dropped.
The real George Jackson's 'Soledad Brother' became a prison abolitionist bible; this film barely scratched his actual ideology.
US
