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Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

Canadian Bacon (1995)

Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

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Always For Pleasure (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Sea Cruise

Always For Pleasure (1978) -- (Movie Clip) That's How You Lay The Dead Away

Biography

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Cast (Feature Film)

Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

Canadian Bacon (1995)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

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Always For Pleasure (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Sea Cruise Les Blank’s New Orleans music documentary begins with local star Huey “Piano” Smith’s song, but the version with Huey’s vocal replaced by Frankie Ford, who came from across the river in Gretna, MS, which was the national hit, in Always For Pleasure, 1978.

Always For Pleasure (1978) -- (Movie Clip) That's How You Lay The Dead Away Documentary maker Les Blank, who never discouraged people from mugging for his camera, joins the later stages of a New Orleans jazz funeral, with comments from Allen Toussaint and singer Blu Lu Barker, in Always For Pleasure, 1978.

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Foundations Of Civilization First a Spanish garlic aficionado and Flamenco singer, then documentarian Les Blank finds experts and commentators participating in a 1977 garlic festival in California, in the feature Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers, 1980.

Hot Pepper (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Filmed In Lafayette, Louisiana The opening of Les Blank’s highly-regarded Hot Pepper, 1973, which documented his experience with Clifton Chenier and the family of the legendary Zydeco musician.

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Medical Science Will Tell You The opening of Les Blank’s single-vegetable documentary, beginning with Bay Area garlic users, in Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mother, 1980.

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