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WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned.
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1997 Directed by Joel B. Marsden
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05 Dec 1997
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The other slave-ship insurrection drama from 1997 starring Djimon Hounsou, and the only narrative feature by NASA TV producer Joel B. Marsden. Shot in claustrophobic black-and-white, Marsden's film offers a strange and offbeat response to its Spielberg counterpart, working best when set in the grimy, cramped quarters of the slave ship, where the chained and beaten captives bicker and wait for the opportune time to break free while occasionally having schizophrenic claymation visions of a stick figurine in a tribal mask (voiced by Eartha Kitt). Once above deck, however, Marsden's propensity for outer-space footage becomes all too clear through his inability to direct his actors in any dramatically viable fashion, whereas his decision to have the white slaveholders speak in…
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