Episode 404: Trouble Man (1972)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Summary

Black History Month 2019 continues with a look at the 1972 film directed by Ivan Dixon and written by John D. F. Black, Trouble Man . Robert Hooks stars as cool cat Mr. T. That’s T that rhymes with P and this cat is great at pool. He does his business out of a billiards parlor where he holds court like a Sicilian on the day of his daughter’s wedding. Mr. T runs afoul a plot hatched by Chalky and Pete (Ralph Waite & Paul Winfield), a salt and pepper team of criminals who put T on the outs with Big (Julius Harris) and the cops.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:08.5	Trouble is here. He's street smart and steel hard. He's a healer, a fixer.
0:14.4	My name's T, baby.
0:15.5	Wear $600 suits, drives a $10,000 car, and he carries two guns, one to stop trouble and one to make
0:23.7	trouble.
0:24.4	He was born in the ghetto and raised in the streets.
0:27.6	He's been a man since he was a kid, and trouble is this man's name.
0:34.5	If you're a friend of Mr. Tees, you can count on him.
0:38.0	How's my baby?
0:39.7	I'm good.
0:40.8	But if you're not, you can count yourself out.
0:43.4	You're going to damn who owns it or what color.
0:46.5	Now, you see that baby, I'll come back to see to you.
0:48.9	You dig it?
0:49.8	If you've got trouble, call tea and leave a message.
0:53.7	Services prompt, efficient, and deadly.
0:56.9	We move in on Big's business, and the money comes rolling in like waves on the shore.
1:02.7	All we got to do is get rid of Mr. T.
1:05.2	Tea is on the streets right now.
1:09.0	One man, chalk.
1:10.4	He's just one man. Don't make him sound like a goddamn army.
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