Episode 614: Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)

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The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

We conclude Black History Month with a look at Jamaa-Fanakaa’s Welcome Home Brother Charles. Released in 1975 it’s the story of our titular Brother Charles (Marlo Monte) who is picked up by the police and possibly castrated for being too “uppity”. Amid the crime and corruption of mid-seventies Los Angeles we follow Charles as he’s railroaded into jail and swears revenge upon his release.

Gary Phillips and Jackie Stewart join Mike to discuss this bizarre story of vengeance. Sam Ingraffia talks about his role in the film (as well as his work on Barney Miller).

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	This is the color of black baby.
0:42.5	It's a whole lot different than white.
0:44.7	Get it!
0:48.4	Ah!
0:52.5	Come on, digger!
0:53.6	Go! Go! I'm the devil. Now, he's the guy. Come on, Gagga! Come on, Gagga!
0:54.3	Go!
0:54.6	Move on.
0:56.3	I'm the devil.
0:57.7	He's the goddamn devil, man.
0:59.4	Order.
0:59.9	What kind of giant...
1:01.0	You let that devil...
1:03.6	All the goddamn lies, my God.
1:05.7	You let this...
1:07.0	And tell all them goddamn lies, man. Oh, go to hell! See, you'll pick them all that. What are you? Oh, go to hell
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