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Book of Numbers Reviews

  • 1973
  • 1 hr 21 mins
  • Comedy
  • R
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Yarn about two waiters who set up a numbers game in 1930s Arkansas. Freda Payne, Raymond St. Jacques, Philip Thomas, Hope Clarke, Willie Washington Jr., D'Urville Martin, Irma Hall. Blip: C.L. Williams.

Decent black exploitation film about criminal operations in a small southern town during the depression. St. Jacques and Thomas leave their jobs waiting tables in the city and try to establish a numbers racket in a small backwater town, running afoul of local white crime czar Greene. Shows the constraints of its low budget but manages to get its points across. Worth watching.