Slaves (1969) ~ Trailer

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110 min  -  Drama  -  25 May 1972 (Hungary)    A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.    Director: Herbert J. Biberman  Writers: Herbert J. Biberman, John O. Killens,  Stars: Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis, Stephen Boyd

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00:00But it's Slade, you call him, you have seen his face, don't you know his name?

00:16The Master.

00:19You black bastard!

00:25The Slave.

00:27The fire that started 200 years ago and still burns today.

00:32If you have the courage, kill yourself!

00:34I'll even give you the knife, but don't come here!

00:43This is the savage black and white truth.

00:45The tamings, the desires, the furies of the old South as you have never seen it.

00:52There is more than one kind of slavery.

00:54Get your clothes on.

00:56It can be anger, as long as it's lively for a change.

01:01You're not in a hurry, is you, Master?

01:06You know how corrupt I am, don't you, Nathan?

01:10Because I enjoy you, Nathan.

01:13I enjoy you, Nathan.

01:15Don't I?

01:21Stephen Boyd.

01:22300 years ago they had a university there,

01:26where the most delicate operations were performed for cataracts of the eye.

01:32People came from all over the world

01:35to have their sight restored by these extraordinary black surgeons.

01:39What do we create?

01:42Surgeons?

01:44Sculptors?

01:47Or niggers?

01:48R.C. Davis.

01:50If I pick Master Scott, I won't be his slaves.

01:54Dionne Warwick.

01:56I am black and comely.

02:01Black as the African day.

02:04Some stories wait 200 years to be told.

02:07Some fires burn longer than that.

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