Movies starring Ruby Dee

Buck and the Preacher (1972)

102 mins     Western      

Buck and the Preacher: Sidney Poitier & Harry Belafonte star as Buck and the Preacher who help former slaves head West and a way from Bounty Hunters...

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)

100 mins     Biography, Drama, TV Movie      

Do you know I have never seen any footage of Jackie Robinson play baseball, in fact I have never seen any footage of the athlete full stop. I mention this to put you in the picture as to where I am coming from when it comes t...

Decoration Day (1990)

100 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Decoration Day (1990) James Garner stars as Albert Sidney Finch, a retired judge who finds him coming to the aid of his childhood friend, Gee Penniwell (Bill Cobbs), when he needs some legal advice...

Cop and a Half (1993)

97 mins     Comedy, Family      

Whenever I watch a children's movie I do my best to take into account that it has been a long time since I was a child but even doing that some children's movies just don't work. Sadly "Cop and a Half" is one of them as it is...

The Wall (1998)

95 mins     Drama, TV Movie, War      

That story I have briefly told is the opening story in "The Wall" and after that it moves on to another story, a young man who is a chopper pilot who back at home faced conflict over fighting in Vietnam with some members of h...

Taking Back Our Town (2001)

90 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

"Erin Brockovich", "A Civil Action" and I am sure if I dug through the other movie reviews which I have written I would find a few more. What I am on about are movies about small town communities taking on big business when i...

American Gangster (2007)

169 mins     Crime, Drama      

I've heard Ridley Scott's "American Gangster" being called "The Godfather" for the 21st century, but sadly it isn't, it doesn't even come close to the epic superiority of Francis Ford Coppola's genre defining movie. But that ...

America (2009)

89 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

TV movies tend to get a bad rap, people think they are all inferior movies which steal ideas from the big screen and rehash them on a lesser budget with lesser stars. But not all TV movies are equal and when you come across a...

A Thousand Words (2012)

91 mins     Comedy, Drama      

Movie Review - A Thousand Words (2012) Eddie Murphy stars as Jack McCall, a book promoter who discovers a tree which suddenly grows in his garden is connected to him as every word he says causes a leaf to fall. Question is wh...

Betty and Coretta (2013)

88 mins     Biography, Drama, TV Movie      

As a Brit born in the 70s with little to no interest in politics I hope it comes as no surprise that whilst I have come across the names Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King in other movies I have watched I knew nothing about...