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Movie
Wattstax
Synopsis
This is a filmed documentary of a black music festival held on August 20, 1972 at the Los Angeles Coliseum, sponsored by Stax Records and Schlitz Beer. The L.A./Watts riots demonstrated the community's urgent needs to the black show-business community. All the proceeds from the concert and this movie went to charity. Among the better-known performers were Isaac Hayes, The Emotions, The Staple Singers, Little Milton and Luther Ingram. Richard Pryor, at the peak of his form, hosts and provides scatological and satiric comic relief.
Cast
- Pops Staples
- Little Sonny
- Isaac Hayes
- David L. Wolper
- Jim Jones
- Little Milton
- Debra Manning
- Kim Weston
- John A. Alonzo
- Al Bell
- Ernie Hines
- Lee Sain
- Johnnie Taylor
- Luther Ingram
- William Bell
- Rufus Thomas
- Forest Hamilton
- Richard Pryor
- David Blewitt
- Louise McCord
- Larry Clark
- Albert King
- Frederick Knight
- Jose Mignone
- Jesse Jackson
- Eddie Floyd
- Robert Grant
- Roderick Young
- Hal Grier
- David Newhouse
- Joe Walcotts
- Howard Morehead
- Eric Mercury
- Robert Marks
- Carla Thomas
- Robert K. Lambert
- Freddy Robinson
- Roy Lewis
- Newcomers