D'Urville Martin

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Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Actor), 2 (Director)
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Guess Who\
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiance who is black. (imdb)
Black Caesar
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. (imdb)
Hell Up in Harlem
A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia. (imdb)
Watermelon Man
An extremely bigotted white man find out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand! (imdb)
Dolemite
Dolemite has to deal with Willie Green, Mitchell and White, Mayor Daly, and assorted production equipment used to film the movie; all in an attempt to regain control of his nightclub. He is joined with his kung-fu fighting whores, Queen Bee, and the Reverend in this heroic struggle. (imdb)
The Zebra Killer
Based on the real events that shocked San Franisco in the early 70's. Mac (James Pickett) portrays the role of The Zebra Killer, a white man who dresses in black makeup and strolls the city of San Francisco stalking, raping and killing young women. Lt. Savage (Austin Stoker) hears that the Killer has killed his girlfriend (Valerie Rogers). Lt. Savage goes everywhere to find and kill the maniac, along with the help of Williams (Hugh Smith) and Robert (Charles Kissinger). (imdb)
Sheba, Baby
Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier) returns to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky to help her father. A proud businessman, he refuses to be intimidated by thugs attempting to run him out of business. While Sheba looks for the men (and the organization) supporting the thugs, she also finds a sinister motive behind their actions. Sheba's former flame Brick (Austin Stoker) adds some muscle to her mission. (imdb)
Hammer
A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug dealer, tells him that he has to take a dive during an important fight, and to ensure his cooperation, his girlfriend is kidnapped. (imdb)
Boss Nigger
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk. They raise hell, chase women, and milk the locals for cash, while waiting for the opportunity to get their man. (imdb)
Black Like Me
A man turns black in order to pass as a Negro in the segregationist South.
The Big Score
A narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. (imdb)
Blind Rage
Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind. (imdb)
Book of Numbers
Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket. (imdb)
The Legend of Black Charley
Set in the pre-Civil War South, this western adventure follows three escaped Virginia slaves on their journey into the West. The already arduous journey is made worse by the dogged bounty hunter who pursues them. Along the way the fugitive trio add others to their group, doing good wherever they go. (allmovie.com)
The Final Comedown
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs. (imdb)
Five on the Black Hand Side
Released at a time when most black-oriented films were bloody action fests. In contrast, this low-budget effort, coproduced by actors Brock Peters and Michael Tolan, eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior (www.allmovie.com)
The Soul of Black Charley
This movie, a sequel to The Legend of Nigger Charlie, tells the story of a Southern colonel in the Civil War who has raided locations in the North in order to capture renegade slaves for a colony of Southern aristocrats living in Mexico. Escaped slave Charley (Fred Williamson) and his friend and fellow escapee Toby (D'Urville Martin) bend all their energies to freeing the 71 blacks captured by the colonel. In the violence that follows, the Southern cause suffers. (allrovi.com)
A Time to Sing
A young farmer is reluctantly drawn into the music business against the wishes of his conservative uncle. (imdb)
Disco 9000
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.