Jody Abrahams - Turner Classic Movies

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Safe House (2012)

The Quarry (1998)

American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1991)

The One That Got Away (1996)

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I Am Cuba (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Moment Of Truth

I Am Cuba (1964) -- (Movie Clip) How's Business?

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Safe House (2012)

The Quarry (1998)

American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1991)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

The One That Got Away (1996)

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I Am Cuba (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Moment Of Truth Six minutes from the beginning and remarkably only the fourth shot in the film, by far the most ambitious, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s first portrait of the decadent Havana lifestyle supplanted by Fidel Castro’s Soviet-supported revolution, in the long-ignored quasi-documentary I Am Cuba, 1964.

I Am Cuba (1964) -- (Movie Clip) How's Business? A vignette of Havana between director Mikhail Kalatozov’s meant-to-be damning illustrations of depraved Western lifestyles, another preposterous single shot from cinematographer Serger Urusevsky, we meet street vendor Rene (uncredited), from the Soviet-Cuban propaganda project I Am Cuba, 1964.

Last Dragon, The (1985) -- (Movie Clip) The Shogun Of Harlem During a raucous Harlem screening of Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon, the suitably outrageous entrance of Julius Carry as “Sho ’Nuff,” with his crew, intimidating all except mild-mannered martial arts master “Bruce-Leeroy” Green (Taimak), in the Berry Gordy-Motown box office hit The Last Dragon, 1985.

Last Dragon, The (1985) -- (Movie Clip) How Did You Know? After a martial-arts silhouette-with-music credit sequence, leading man Taimak (as Leroy Green) executes some muscular tricks and is surprised when his master (Thomas Ikeda) tells him they’re done, in Motown mogul Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, 1985.

Last Dragon, The (1985) -- (Movie Clip) 7th Heaven We’ve learned that Laura Charles (Vanity) rules over the music video scene in New York and JJ (William H. Macy, age 35), a promoter or something, needs her to push a song, but she’s too busy with her own performance, a song she co-wrote with Bill Wolfer, in the Berry Gordy-produced The Last Dragon, 1985.

Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) -- (Movie Clip) My Adopted Son, Jesus In 1948 L-A, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Denzel Washington), after being beaten up by police over the murder of his one-night stand Coretta, gets an offer from mayoral candidate Terell (Maury Chaykin), who has questions, including some about the missing girlfriend of the other candidate, whom he’s been hired to find, in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) -- (Movie Clip) My Name's Not Fella Evocative opening of 1948 South Los Angeles, we meet Denzel Washington as novelist Walter Mosley’s hero Easy Rawlins, unemployed veteran, Steve Randazzo as his ex-boss, in director Carl Franklin’s Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Daphne Has A Predilection Unemployed L-A machinist Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), worried about his mortgage and looking for work, follows up on a lead from a friend and meets with shady Albright (Tom Sizemore) who, it turns out, wants him to find a mayoral candidate’s fianceè (Jennifer Beals), in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) -- (Movie Clip) You Ain't Jumped Out No Windows? Gaining entrance to an unlicensed bar in 1948 South Central L-A, unemployed Easy (Denzel Washington), hired to find a white woman named Daphne, meets old pal Junior, (David Fonteno) then Jeris Poindexter, Albert Hall, Jernard Burks and Lisa Nicole Carson as Coretta, in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Why Don't You Search Me? At last the dress and the title character, Daphne (Jennifer Beals), the missing fianceè of a mayoral candidate and friend of murdered Coretta, has called novice detective Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) to see her at Ambassador Hotel, L-A, 1948, in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995, from the Walter Mosley novel.

High Anxiety (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Dedicated To The Master Writer, director and star Mel Brooks establishes from the start that his film is meant as a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, then gets busy on the airplane, then accosted after landing at LAX by a guy in a trenchcoat (Bob Ridgely), in High Anxiety, 1977.

High Anxiety (1977) -- (Movie Clip) A Mr. MacGuffin Called More waves of Hitchcock from writer-director Mel Brooks, as rattled shrink Thorndyke, arriving at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco with Brophy (Ron Carey), dealing with Jack Riley at the desk, co-writer Barry Levinson carrying bags, and an agorophobic episode, in the comic tributeHigh Anxiety, 1977.

Five on the Black Hand Side - (Original Trailer) A barber's autocratic ways trigger a revolt by the rest of his family in Five on the Black Hand Side (1973).

Driving Miss Daisy - (Original Trailer) Driving Miss Daisy (1989), the story of an elderly Southern white woman and her black chauffeur, won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actress (Jessica Tandy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Alfred Uhry).

Breaker Morant -- (Original Trailer) Edward Woodward and Bryan Brown first came to international attention in 'Breaker' Morant (1980), a true story of the Boer War.

Tender Mercies - (Original Trailer) Robert Duvall gives one of his greatest performances as a has-been country singer who finds love in Tender Mercies (1983).

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