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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305907688
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305907684
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 04, 2000
Running Time: 55 minutes
Sales Rank: 24592
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
Editorial Review:
Description:
A young, conservative black man, minding his own business, rides on an all-but-empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blond vixen, is looking his way and looking for trouble. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation. Writer LeRoi Jones' powerful and controversial play is faithfully adapted in this dramatically explosive and emotionally raw film made at the height of civil unrest in the '60s, with just as potent a message for today's audiences. Al Freeman, Jr. (Malcolm X) and two time Academy Award-nominee Shirley Knight (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) sear the screen in this highly acclaimed award-winner from Oscar-nominated director Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter), with a ominously knowing score by Academy Award winner John Barry (Dances with Wolves).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Dutchman
Fascinating watching Shirley Knight act out this role. She did a superb job.
Rating:  - Explosive Drama
With a running time of just under one hour, DUTCHMAN has enough dramatic explosiveness to rock a movie theatre to pieces. Based on the play by LeRoi Jones (before he changed his name to Amiri Baraka), DUTCHMAN tells the story of Clay (Daytime Emmy Award-winner Al Freeman, Jr.), a seemingly mild-mannered black man that encounters an uninhibited white woman named Lula (two time Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight).
While sitting in a subway car, Clay glances out the window and catches the ... Read More
Rating: - 1 Hour of '60s Magic
Dutchman is a play by LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka) set to this 1966 film starring Shirley Knight. First thing that strikes you is Knight's Sexyness with a capital S. She's all over the screen and Al Freeman Jr. as well. The whole hourlong Kerouacesque meditation on life, sex, and race plays out in black and white (pun intended) in a subway car. Bears some similarity to its contemporary, The Incident (Martin Sheen), but Dutchman goes far deeper in its artistic eloquence.
The underlying ... Read More
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