The Pocketbook

Name: The Pocketbook
Genre: drama
Released: 1980
Duration: 13 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Ray Cherry, David Jenkins, Simmi Ella Nelson, Christopher Thompson, Phillip Weatherspoon

Drama · 5.4/10 · 13 min · 1980

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in 16mm, adapts Langston Hughes’ short story, Thank You, Ma’am, and features music by Leadbelly, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. (Ross Lipman)

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Billy Woodberry
original story

Langston Hughes
writer

Billy Woodberry
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Ray Cherry
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David Jenkins

The Pocketbook

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