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The Projection Booth Podcast

Episode 548: Chameleon Street (1989)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at Wendell B. Harris’s Chameleon Street. After winning the Sundance film festival in 1990 the film took too long to come out theatrically and died a quick death after it did. It’s the story of Douglas Street played by Harris. He’s a man who goes from installing burglar alarms to extorting a Detroit Tiger to impersonating a doctor, student, lawyer, and more.
Jay Jackson and Jonathan Melville join Mike to discuss this thought-provoking film.

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1:06.7

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Everybody's talking about new black cinema, but there is one black director's film,

1:38.0

Camelion Street, that has faced serious resistance.

1:43.0

It was written and directed by Wendell B. Harris, who also stars in the film.

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