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Brothers
1973 Bernie Casey
Teaser Storyline for Brothers
David Thomas (BERNIE CASEY), an ordinary black man, is arrested in Los Angeles as an accessory to a robbery of a gas station. He pleads innocent but is persuaded to plead guilty in exchange for what he thinks will be a light sentence.
Thomas is given a one-year to life term, expecting parole within nine months. He becomes a model prisoner but his parole is denied. Angered by the treatment of inmates at the segregated prison, Thomas is taught to channel his fury into more productive areas by a fellow convict, Walter Nance (RON O'NEAL). He educates himself by studying Paine, Guevara, Fanon, Hugo and Gorki. He starts an underground newspaper and begins to fight back and resist. His efforts win him two years in solitary confinement.
Thomas's case comes to the attention of a beautiful, radical, controversial, black professor named Paula Jones (VONETTA McGEE). Through brief, monitored meetings in prison and prolonged correspondence, they fall passionately in love.
When Thomas's brother, Lewis, (RENNY ROKER)
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is killed in a courthouse shootout while using Paula's gun, she is accused of murder, tried, and sent to prison. She and Thomas continue to correspond until Thomas is killed in a prison-break set-up designed to eliminate him before he can implicate the prison guards responsible for a killing for which he has been accused.
After his death, Paula Jones is acquitted and released from prison.
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CAST
David Thomas .......................... Bernie Casey
Paula Jones .......................... Vonetta McGee
Walter Nance .......................... Ron O'Neal
Lewis .......................... Renny Roker
Robinson .......................... Stu Gilliam
McGee .......................... John Lehne
Joshua .......................... Owen Pace
Woman Guard .......................... Mercedes Alberti
Tina .......................... Susan Barrister
Guard .......................... Brandyn Bonheur
Guard .......................... Thomas Bellin
Prisoner .......................... Alonzo Bridges
Horton .......................... Ricardo Browq
Sheriff .......................... Joe Carlo
FBI Agent .......................... David Clover
Davis Brother .......................... Richard Collins
Student .......................... Robert Cortes
Jack Browning .......................... Carl M. Craig
FBI Agent .......................... Janet Dey
Lacy .......................... Oliver Fletcher
Balaban .......................... Sidney Galanty
Government Man .......................... William Gavitt, Jr
Newscaster .......................... Jane Gibbons
District Attorney .......................... Ronald Gold
Prisoner .......................... Jack Haddock
Joan Kline .......................... Samantha Harper
Guard .......................... Tim Harris
Warden Leon .......................... Joseph Havener
A Soho Associates Production
Directed by .......................... Arthur Barron
Written and Produced by .......................... Edward and Mildred Lewis
Executive Producer .......................... Lee Savin
Produced in Association with .......................... Robert H. Greenberg and Herb Forgash
Music Composed and Performed by .......................... Taj Mahal
Director of Photography .......................... John Morrill
Film Editor .......................... William Dornisch
Casting by .......................... Lynn Stalmaster
In Charge of Production .......................... Sidney Galanty
Production Manager .......................... Art Levinson
Assistant Directors .......................... Michael Blum, Kim Kurumada
Makeup .......................... Tino Zacchia
Art Director .......................... Vince Cresciman
Sound .......................... Kirk Francis
Wardrobe .......................... Gerry Puhara
Re-recorded by .......................... Hal Watkins C.A.S.
Property Master .......................... Erik Nelson
Post Production Supervisor .......................... Joseph Benadon
Associate Editor .......................... Mike Eliot
Technical Consultant .......................... Chuck Bengansky
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