Richard Pryor - Fighting Machine

Here’s a fun movie for everyone, just in time for the weekend. The movie was called either Black Brigade or Carter’s army and has an impressive list of black actors who star in the made for tv low budget war movie. Richard Pryor stars as Jonathan, who is a soldier ready to go AWOL for most of the movie. Billy Dee Williams plays a tough guy from the streets of Harlem, and Rosie Grier plays Big Ed (not to be confused with Big Jim). This rag tag group of fighting men is led by Stephen Boyd as Captain Carter - who has one of the most annoying fake cajun accents you have ever heard. (if you recognize the face - he played Messala in Ben Hur, the evil former friend of Judah Ben-Hur who has all the fancy spikes on his chariot). The movie is for the most part pretty entertaining - though at times the dialogue or concept of a scene might be so contrived you just feel like saying - Oh Brother. If you want to check out a better Black Culture film - by all means try this one - Brother From Another Planet.