Cooley High

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It was the best of times.

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They were the best of friends.
They made the best of memories.
Why don't you go somewhere?
Your place or mine?
Those cool, cool days,

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Cooley High.
We're not talking about actors.
We mean a real monster.
I brought her back.
She'll live and I'll get her another body.
I know they're i gonna catch me,
but don't let anyone see me like that.
Please, Doctor!
Biologically speaking,

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it's a primary importance that man should want to meet.
Hey, that's right.
You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
And we want to get loaded.
You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
I'll see you in Hell first!
The American International Podcast.

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Are you ready?
Thanks for joining us on this 100th episode
of the American International Podcast.
I'm Jeff Markin.
And I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
And can you believe we've done a hundred episodes?
I can.
It has been a lot of fun.
Don't you think?
For the most part, yeah.
We've said another podcast why we started it.
So there's really no need to go into that again.
But I would like to say how very much I enjoy doing this,

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even though I joked about it earlier.
It's a lot of fun to take a very close look at a movie
and find out the history of the movie to watch it,
to really get inside the movie and get to know it.
And I've had a lot of fun doing that.
Right. A lot of these movies we've only watched
for the first time doing this.
And some of them, before we compiled our list,
we haven't even heard of them before.

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Well, that's true.
I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't heard of this week's movie
before we took it on for the podcast.
It hasn't go for all of us.
No, that goes for me.
I'm speaking for myself, Jeff.
I think in a lot of ways that's good,
it being exposed to movies that I never would have seen otherwise
that were a lot of fun and very important movies that I enjoyed watching.
But on the flip side, there are a lot of movies that I would have preferred

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never seeing.
Such as?
One summer love.
I was thinking about it.
What's the worst movie we've done for this podcast?
And that's what I landed on.
The one with Susan Sarandon and Beau Bridges.
And he's a mental patient with family demons.
And she incestantly chases him down as he tries to confront them.
It's just horrible.
Yeah.
That one was pretty bad.
I can remember giving p-watings to a couple of films that I think deserved them.

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But we're very disappointing that they deserved them.
The two being Sergeant Deadhead, which should have been at least an okay comedy.
And as I always say, House of a Thousand Dolls with Vincent Price because that movie just irritates me to no end.
Oh, of course it does.
And I agree.
There are p-movies.
But there's various reasons I give movies a bad grade.
And one of them is it's incredibly disappointing.

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It's not what I expected.
Sometimes it's because it's so morally objectionable or just disgusting.
And I didn't enjoy it.
A lot of times it's because of how ineptly they're made.
One Summer Love just sort of hits all of those cat-cross for me.
It is morally awful.
There's a rape scene that's not addressed as such.
It's terribly done.

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The characters are unpleasant and it's just gross.
It's just all over disgusting.
And I hated every minute of it.
I remember a couple more p-movies.
And that was a matter of time, which neither of us particularly enjoyed.
No, it wasn't that bad though.
But especially crime and passion, which had the sin of being incredibly boring on top of everything else.
It was boring and the plot went nowhere. It made no sense.

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Yeah, that would probably be the next up from one summer love.
Oh, that's going to be my number one.
I don't blame you.
I think it's a strong contender for that.
And what about the best?
This one's a little harder because we've seen some pretty good movies.
Not including today's movie.
I can't say today's movie.
Oh, because of this point.
I remember really loving seven, the Caper movie, not the head-in-a-box movie.

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And I know one of our first movies was the Abominable Doctor Phibes.
And I absolutely adore that movie.
And I still do.
It's fantastic in every way.
The sequel, not so much, but it's still good.
Savage Sisters was so much fun.
I really enjoyed that one.
That is a fun one.
And of course, a bucket of blood, which I came into this podcast already loving.
So that was not going to disappoint me in any way.

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What about you?
It may not be the best, but going all the way back to episode number one, fast and the furious,
is going to be one that I'm going to remember fondly for the rest of my life.
Not only because it started with this podcast and AIP, but I just think that it was
not a great movie, it was definitely a B movie or a C movie.
It just fit into the spirit of what all of this is.

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Yeah, I was going to say it's such a promising start.
You couldn't get off on a better foot than that.
And there are classic films that we've done like I Was a Teenage Werewolf that come to mind
when you think AIP.
And those may not be among the best.
I really enjoy the wild angels despite the gross parts.
It was very gross.
But I just think it's a very good film.
And when that really surprised me was one of their imports, voids to the end of the universe.

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Oh, yeah, that was good.
I didn't have high expectations for that and it turned out to be a pretty good movie.
I was going to say Macon County Line because I had no expectations of that.
I thought it was going to be sort of like a deliverance movie.
And it was very sad, but it wasn't that.
It was actually really good.
And I was surprised by that.
I loved the two musical movies we did the Tammy show and the big TNT show Tammy show more than the other one.

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But I thought those were a real treat.
And another among the best be the over-done was got to be coffee.
Oh, right.
Anything with Pam Grier, honestly.
Friday Foster, I thought was really good too.
I was expecting to like it as much as I did.
I should give a shout out to Gunslinger because I think that is also a wonderful movie.
I saw a lot of bad reviews for that.
But to me, that was just pure perfection and it's all down to Beverly Garland who's amazing and everything.

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One of the things that I find fascinating to in this podcast is when we're doing the research,
we find contemporary reviews that go in the exact opposite of how we feel watching it today.
Now it's a matter of opinion, of course.
But you think there would still be more of a general consensus.
So are some of these films holding up better than others?
I think so.
I think that's the case.
It's just my particular point of view that maybe is not shared by a lot of reviewers back then.

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What I found out reading some of these old reviews is their perception of what happened in the movie doesn't always track with what I perceive as having happened in the movie.
Maybe they weren't watching it very closely.
They weren't sitting in their living rooms watching it, taking notes.
They were sitting in a theater then going back to a newsroom and typing up their review.
And a lot may have gotten lost in translation there.
Because we stopped out in the movie and make sure that we understand everything that's going on.

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Yeah, I envy them.
Well, I don't think we understand a movie quite as well.
If we just watched it the one time and then try to put our feelings into words,
we definitely wouldn't be able to speak as in depth as we do.
No, plus we have access to a lot of research that they wouldn't have had.
These movies have been around for 50 some years, even more.
And a lot of people may have written about them.

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They're interviews from people who start in them, who created them, and they wouldn't have had access to any of that.
And we do. So we're lucky.
And at the end of the episode, we'll mention our website and how you can get in touch with us.
But I just wanted to give a quick thank you to someone who did get in touch with us.
I'll just say his name is Lowell B.
And he wrote us a very nice letter saying that he was digging through the episodes.
And I was really touched by his words.

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It's always good to get feedback, even if it's bad.
But his feedback was very good and I appreciate that.
And if you do have other comments, make sure you let us know either you Lowell or anyone else who's listening.
We are trying to make this better all the time.
So any advice could help and that website is a IP POD dot com.
If you don't stay all the way to the end.
If you want to get in touch with us, there's a link there.
And there's a lot more to look at there.

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So now we're going to take a quick break and we get back.
We're going to be talking about coolie high.
Coolie high was directed by Michael Schultz written by Eric Monty and produced by Steve Krants and Samuel Z.
Arkov.
Billy high stars.
Glenn Turman as Lee Roy, breach Jackson.

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Lauren, Dylan Jacobs as Richard Cochise Morris.
Garrett Morris as Mr. Mason.
Cynthia Davis as Brenda Sherman Smith as Stone Norman Gibson as Robert.
Corn Rogers as Puder Joseph Carter Wilson as Tyrone Maurice Leon Havis as Willie.
It also stars Maurice Marshall as Damon Stephen Williams as Jimmy Lee Christine Jones as Sandra Jackie Taylor as Johnny May.

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One item, a connell as Martha Christine Jones as Sandra Lynn Caradine as Dorothy Mary Larkins as preachers mother.
Sheeran Snow as 2D preach a sister Alicia Williams as D preachers other sister and Lily shine is Cochise's mother.
So the film coolie high opens on the Chicago sky skate while the song baby love plays.
And on screen title tells us that we are in Chicago in 1964.

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So in coolie high, Lee Roy, preach Jackson and his best friend Richard Cochise Morris are in the final weeks of their senior year at coolie vocational high school in the near north side.
We see that they aren't serious students preach improvises away for him.
Cochise and their friend Puder to get out of class one Friday.
Precies about a red paint on the teacher's desk.
He's at the back of the row. He encourages the person in the front of the road to pass it back to him.

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He pours a lot of anchor chiff holds it over Puder's nose except for the front of the classroom indicates that Puder as a bloody knows the teacher just waves them on out and he escapes in the meantime.
Cochise also in the back row.
Seen South band the other row of students and the three of them escape outside.
I don't know if it's important, but this is during a home room class and the class is reading aloud a code of conduct for coolie high school.

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And most of these rules are going to be broken within the context of the film as it progresses.
It doesn't take very long for them to break almost all of them.
So the three of them meet outside with their friend Willie and then they hop on the back of a bus not in the bus.
They were literally hanging on the back of a bus and they take that to the Lincoln Park Zoo.
They spend the day there running around.
Well, one of them just strikes a hot dog vendor. The others deal some snacks.

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They tease the primates. One of them throws poop on Puder and then they decide they have to get back.
They want to get back before the end of the day.
One of the primates throws poop on Puder just to clarify it wasn't one of the game.
Yes, a gorilla throws poop on Puder and they decide they have to get back before the end of the day.
So they jump on the train again skipping the payment part and head back everyone on the train avoids them because Puder smells of poop.

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When they get off the train, there was a brief theme where we see Cochise kind of interrupt a basketball game and shoot a three pointer so that we know that he's a basketball star.
At the door of the school, Puder wants them to wait while he takes a shower.
Puder says just meet him at Martha's then nearby after school hangout place. So Pritchand and Cochise go there.
We see kids dancing to sugar pie, honey bunch and some of the faces that we saw in the school.

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We see here and of course we'll see him again.
Martha's is just a small diner without a lot of room for dancing, but the kids manage.
As our heroes are walking by, girl from inside that comes out. This is Dorothy and she asked them if they've seen Tyrone, which they haven't.
Then Dorothy tells them that since they all miss class today, Mr. Mason has moved their final exam from Friday to Monday next week, which each thinks is hilarious because they all thought they had a week to study and Pritch doesn't care when we are the other.

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Dorothy invites Cochise to record a party tonight. Cochise thinks maybe this is a belly rub party, but Dorothy says no, it's going to be a nice party.
So you got to pay a quarter to get in. She says he can. He's got a study. But once she asks him to tell Tyrone about the party, he says he will.
And Cochise is looking for Pritch and Dorothy says I'll give you one guess where he is. Pritch has gone inside Martha's and he's sitting on the floor in front of the restroom and throwing dice with stone and Robert.

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These are kind of the local bugs. Cochise comes in and tells Pritch that Martha had said that she was going to kick him out the next time she catches him gambling.
So Pritch goes to leave with Cochise, but stone and Robert don't want Pritch leaving with all their money.
So he has how much they have. They got 50 cents left and he says it don't take with two seconds to win 50 cents. So he sits down to get the rest of their money.
He throws the dice and just as a song stop in the name of love starts the dice hits the shoe of a girl.

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Pritch looks up at the beautiful woman standing in front of him and is instantly smitten.
She is not happy to see him though. He's in the way of the bathroom and she just wants to pass. She kicks the dice out of the way telling them that this isn't an alley.
This is a restaurant. Cochise tells her to keep stepping and if they wanted to sermon they'd go to church.
She says you all need to go to church, which inspires Pritch. He runs into the washroom and pulls out the toilet paper, trailing it behind him and sings the Hallelujah chorus, which is kind of odd.

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This girl Brenda is not impressed by this. She turns around and goes to tell Martha the cafe owner what's going on.
So Pritch returns to the floor to win that 50 cents. I think.
Yeah, he rolls a seven. He would have won. But Martha comes out and with a meat clover and chases them all out and everyone cheers.
The next scene he has Cochise and Pritch and they're making out with a couple of girls in the downstairs hall of an apartment complex.

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There's a lot of pressure going on here. They went more than the girls are apparently willing to give them.
Cochise is with Johnny May. Pritch is with Sandra. Johnny May says that she'll go further if Sandra will and Sandra is like no way.
So I don't think Johnny May wanted to either. She was just using that as a convenient excuse.
At least I thought so until the scene progressed a little further. So Cochise takes Pritch on side to talk to him and basically tells him that he needs Pritch to accelerate his game.

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Or to just take Sandra home. He's killing the action either way.
And inside the girls are saying that it's time for them both to go home. Someone Pritch and Cochise go back in.
Johnny May tells him that she's better to go. But he drags her off to speak with her privately.
Speak. Then Pritch tries to get Sandra warmed up again, but she's done.
And then later we go to Cochise's apartment where his mom is cousin Jimmy Lee and various family members are sitting around.

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Jimmy is a little older and he and Cochise's mom are likely bickering about money.
Apparently she just bailed him out of jail and is giving him a nice home cook dinner because he's family.
But he just needs a little more. Cochise is looking around for something and he asked his mother if there was any mail for him.
And she asked him if there was any mail on the shelf where the mail is kept.
He says no and she says well then I ain't come yet. So he gives up.

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And meanwhile Cochise's little brother Tommy is taddling around the house with an envelope.
Oh no, what's going to happen?
Well he takes it and drops into the toilet which Cochise sees and fishes it out. He opens it, reads it and smiles.
It's the good news he was waiting for and now it's time to celebrate.
And next Pritch Cochise, Puder, Willie and Tyrone are walking instead of running, which they usually do in this movie to do this party.

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But first they're going to stop and have a little private celebration.
They're all excited for Cochise because he's officially received his basketball scholarship to Grambling University.
And they all keep kidding around as they walk. One of them gives a playful push to preach who scolds them because he's carrying the wine and they almost made him drop it.
Then Pritch says as soon as he gets to school he's going off to Hollywood to become a writer.

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Puder scoffs, he's not going to be famous and he's not going to be a millionaire. And the fifth friend Tyrone who was, I guess, off taking a leak somewhere returns to mock Pritch's poetry.
He even copied some down when he was stealing a look at Pritch's notebook and he reads it.
And there's a reference to Throbbing Manhood.
Pritch has Tyrone, why he's been digging around his notebook and starts after Tyrone but Cochise restrains him.

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The others are all laughing at him but Pritch puts them down saying you all think it's so funny just because I want to make something of myself instead of being a factory worker or a football player.
But the sound first only makes them laugh harder.
They're momentarily put off by the angry words from Cochise but yeah they start laughing right away.
Pritch is still a little put out and he separates himself from the group. Cochise goes to him to try and cheer him up because they're supposed to be celebrating.
And Cochise says let's have some wine.

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Cochise starts to drink from the bottle and stops and pours a bit onto the ground. This is for the brothers who ain't here he says, "Goodard complains that they're pouring out all the wine and Cochise repeats, this is for the brothers who ain't here."
He explains that there are a lot of brothers who are dead or in jail and Tyrone says they're here so they don't get none.
But Cochise wants to pay his respects so he's going to do what he's going to do.

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And then they'll take a slug but the kid goes first as Cochise taking the first drink.
And the bottle goes around and they realize it's almost eight o'clock and they better get to that party.
So they get to Dorothy's they start to head up the stairs. At the top of the stairs stone and Robert are trying to get in without paying.
But Dorothy stands firm no quarter no party.
She's standing in front of the door with an oatmeal container with a slide on the top.

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But Pritch had taken their last 50 cents so they can't get into this party.
So they come down the stairs as Pritch and Cochise etc are going up.
Tyrone asks who's got the door and when he hears it's Dorothy he says they'll be in like a fat rat in the cheese factor.
And he runs on his head because he knows how to take care of Dorothy.
And meanwhile Stone and Robert spark up a joint and they share it with the others.
So Dorothy seems a little myth that she hasn't seen or heard from Tyrone.

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Yeah but his mom didn't pay the phone bill so he didn't have any way to call her.
No she tells them he could have done something.
He could have come by and Tyrone says I did I just came over.
I don't think she's talking about this very moment. She means before.
But she seems to forgive him and he tries to get her to leave her post and go off with him.
But she insists that she has to watch the door so Tyrone calls Pritch over to watch the door.
Which then allows everybody to enter free of charge.

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Well except for Stone and Robert they're gone.
So everyone goes into the party and looks around.
Pritch sees Brenda the girl from Martha's talking to another girl and he can't take his eyes off her.
Tyrone rejoins them and Cochise tells them that was pretty cool how we handled Dorothy.
Who does he see some cute girls and says that his mom is going to start now.
He joins those two girls says that he's there and ready to jam.
But they only have eyes for Cochise and they flock over to him leaving putter in the dust.

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However Cochise isn't interested in them.
We kind of brushes them off.
Pritch walks over to Brenda and says hi.
She asks him if he doesn't have someplace to go.
Your place her mind preaches asks Brenda asks him if he can't take no for answer and walks off and
Pritch smiles after she loves me.
He says to no one in particular.
He just hasn't come up with the right lie to win her yet.
She sees a pretty girl sitting on the couch and he asked Johnny May who's manning the turn table.

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If there are any slow records she could play.
She pulls one out and she tells her to go ahead and put it on.
Each word 45789 comes to an abrupt alt record scratch and everyone complains.
Especially putter and Cochise tells them to shut up.
Turn out the lights.
Pooter reaches for the switch but Dorothy appears out of nowhere and smacks his hand.
Her mama told her the lights needed to stay on.

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So it's Tyrone to the rescue again.
What's the matter baby?
He asks, "Jelly pushing Dorothy against the wall."
It's some distraction action.
Johnny May puts on the record "Oo baby baby" by the miracles.
Cochise thinks her and gives her a kiss in the cheek and she's very disappointed as he makes his way to the girl sitting on the sofa.
Is this next to her and introduces himself and asks for her deats?
She tells Cochise that she's loretta brown.

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As Johnny May takes in the scene, she's jealous.
When we cut back to Cochise we see that his game is going well.
Loretta asks him to call her on Friday.
So as they're dancing, pooter not having anything else to do, leans on a piece of furniture, only to have Dorothy yell at him.
"Would you get the hell off the brake front?"
My mother said not to lean on the brake front because she hasn't paid for it yet.
Then pooter has to go eat chips with the girl who's only role in this party is to eat chips.

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Preach has into one of the bedrooms.
Maybe the only bedroom.
Bren is there and she's not happy to see him.
But instead of leaving like she asked him to do, he sits on the bed with her to look at the title of the book she's reading.
It's a book of poetry by Elizabeth Farrer Browning and Peach is impressed.
He loves poetry and he gives her a quote from songs of the Portuguese.
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
And Peach says if she likes love poems, she should really check out Walter Benton.

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Then it begins with setting a poem called "Where I pick Malian or God."
"I would make you exactly as you are in every dimension, from your warm hair to your intimate toes, would you be holy in your own image?
I would change nothing at or take away."
It's really romantic. Brenda was really surprised to find out that he likes poetry.
She smiles at him and Peach says that he's going to give her a copy of that poem as soon as he steals it.

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"I would like to give you a copy of that poem."
Back in the other room where the parties going on, Cochise and LaRetta are still dancing and have added kissing to the mix.
Another student, Damon, tries to get past Dorothy.
She's arguing with him. He has a reputation for causing trouble and breaking up parties.
Damon says he just wants to have a good time like everyone else.

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He puts his quarter in the oatmeal container and then looks around the room.
Dorothy tells him she ain't playing with him.
Then he notices Cochise dancing with LaRetta across the room and he storms over to pull to Cochise off her.
"That's his old lady." Damon tries to throw a punch at Cochise.
Cochise says he'll apologize, but that's as far as it goes.
Dorothy stomps toward Damon. She's not going to let him start any fights at her party.
Tyrone comes up behind her to try to get Dorothy to cool down.

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Then Damon punches Tyrone. Tyrone gets back up and Dorothy tries to hold him back.
But Tyrone pushes her aside. Get out of my way. Nobody punches me in the jaw.
After he shoves her, she retaliates by punching him right into the break front.
She rushes to keep this multi-story, nicknick cabinet from toppling.
She does and breathes aside of relief.
But she and the break front are not out of the woods yet.

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As the fight continues, Puder goes into the other room to tell Prech that a fight is broken out
and Cochise is in the middle of it.
Prech and wanted to sneak out the nonexistent backway, but that's not an option.
So Prech takes a deep breath, tells Brenda he'll wrap with her later and steps outside.
Where he ends up being more of a cheering section than a actual help in this fight.
Cochise and Damon, and they're struggling, bump into the break front and it crashes to the floor

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this time before Dorothy can catch it.
She throws her hands to her head and spins around because she knows that life is she knew it is now over.
Then Cochise throws Damon across the room.
He crashes into Prech and both men fall into the door causing it to fly backwards into the bedroom.
They actually knocked it off its hinges.
And Prech kills Brenda a smile.
And then we hear Dorothy whining that her mom is going to kill him.

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I don't know which one her mom is going to kill, but she's got a lot of options.
So now the party is over and Prech, Cochise, Puder and Tad Rowan are loitering out staircase outside of building.
Wondering why Willie never showed up to the party.
The kind of rehashing went on and the main consensus is that they would like more of that good stuff that Stone and Robert had.
But that stuff came from Sam and they won't be able to score anything from him.
But they could get some stuff from Jimmy Lee. Cochise's cousin.

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Then Willie shows up and wonders why they're not still at the party.
But now that everyone's reunited, they head off with Willie still wondering why they're not going to the party.
Maybe they're going to get the pot from Jimmy Lee.
Well, the arpa Willie doesn't know that.
And speaking of Jimmy Lee, let's find out what he's up to.
He's at a place called Roberts Lounge.
He's obviously running a scam.
He's got a mark who is showing pictures of his stable of prostitutes.

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The mark picks one and Jimmy Lee calls her on the phone or so we think.
To tell her that they're on the way, but Jimmy Lee tells the man that he's scamming that first he's got to return this envelope of cash.
He holds the customer's money so the prostitutes don't steal it when they complete their transactions.
The mark seems to think that this is a good idea.
He and Jimmy Lee go on to the Mark's car and they drive off together just as preach Cochise, put her Willie and Tyrone come around the corner.

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They all make put her way outside because he's too young to go in.
Obviously too young. The rest are also too young, but they don't look at.
Inside Cochise asks if anyone has seen Jimmy Lee, the bartender said he just made a phone call and left about 30 seconds ago.
Cochise makes a face. Was he working? He asked. The bartender says, yeah, he had a customer with him and Cochise nods and they all head back outside.
Now we're back with Jimmy Lee and his mark. Mark parks in front of the building, but before the exit the car, Jimmy Lee tells him to put his money in an envelope just for his own safety.

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And Jimmy Lee will hold onto it. He shares this mark that this girl is clean and then lets him into the building telling him how to find Louise is intended.
He has to go all the way to the top floor, then all the way to the back, the last door on the left.
Things to knock and ask for Louise. Jimmy Lee says, I'll wait in the car until he's finished. The man gives an okay sign and heads inside.
Jimmy Lee returns to the car, opens the door and slams his shut just for show and the man follows the directions to Louise.

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But when he knocks on the door and it opens, there is no prostitute there. There's a big guy who wonders what the hell he's doing there.
What you want honking?
Is Louise here? He's stammer. Ain't nobody here named Louise. Then he slams the door. And only now the man realizes that he's been taken.
He rushes downstairs, but Jimmy Lee and his money have left the scene.
Well, as you might expect, what a dummy.

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So now our five friends are standing on the corner, harmonizing on a song.
Poodermakes and ill-advised attempt to sing bass and the guys stop singing so that they can make fun of him.
They call him a tenor and once they suggest that he starts smoking if he wants to change that.
Or Poodermy. And then Stoner Robert pull up in a Cadillac. Hey y'all still walking?
Cochise asks where they got the sweet ride. But the answer to that is an important.

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Cochise wants to ride, but Tyrone and Willie and Poodermy don't want to risk riding around in a stolen car.
Come on, Preach. I know you ain't Jive and says Cochise and he and Preach crawl into the back seat.
As they start to drive off, Chise asks for some more of that herb. And Preach starts bragging about his driving skills to the point where the others finally call him on it.
Cochise doesn't believe that Preach ever drove any Mazda Dadi as he called it.

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But they pull over and Preach and Robert get out from the passenger side and Robert climbs into the back as Stone slides over from the driver's seat to make room for Preach.
Preach tries to get acquainted with the car as it blaring the horn and putting it in reverse by mistake.
Yeah, he's a really good driver. Then he lurches onto the road as the guys protest. They end up stopped at a light and two cops pull up next to them.
Preach tries to stay cool, but Stone freaks out and puts his foot over Preach's causing him to accelerate out of there.

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He's also holding onto the steering wheel as Preach struggles mightily to control the vehicle.
The cops look at each other and decide, yeah, we gotta chase these guys.
The chase doesn't stay on the street very long though. Preach drives into a warehouse which is fortunately nearly empty and the chase continues in there.
They're going back and forth through some narrow passageways. It's actually kind of brightening.
What I read was that Glenn term it is really driving. They're not on a rig being driven by someone in the production staff.

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This is cinema verite here and the cops are chasing them the whole time.
They get to a part of the warehouse where stuff is actually happening and there's a forklift sitting at the ready.
Preach drives over it, no problem, but for whatever reason as the cops are driving over it, the lift goes up and the cop car is trapped up there and the cops do.
Up on the forklift, the cops swear that they'll get preach who drives off.

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So as the Cadillac makes his way back out onto the street, butchers, I told you I knew how to drive.
He starts telling them how he used to drive a Maserati or a rich man.
But as he's talking, he slams into the back of a parked car.
The man climbs up in the car, yelling, whiplash.
The cops now on foot chase after them and shimmy down the beams supporting the bridge to where the car crash happened.
So they give chase, but they aren't fast enough to catch the for who exited the car.

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As Preach co-cheese, don't enrobert run off.
They separate into two groups, preaching co-cheese and stone enrobert the break.
The next day, preach co-cheese, Tyrone and Puder are all hanging out with Willie in his room.
They're allegedly studying.
Puder doesn't have to study because he's not in that class.

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So he's wearing a catcher's mask and flashing a badge.
Any places preach under arrest for being ugly.
Puder thinks that the badge looks real, but Willie says, nah, his brother got it from a box of cornflakes.
Jesus is afraid that he'll never remember all these dates.
Tyrone tries to help, but a wrong answer is not better than no answer.
Sorry, guys.
Preach at least knows when the emancipation proclamation happened.

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And unlike what Tyrone suggested, it wasn't 1776.
Puder suggests they call it and go to a movie, but there's not on the bedroom door.
It's Willie's brother, Jeffrey, wearing a cowboy hat.
He says he wants his basketball.
As the youngster comes in, Preach says they should have gone over to his house to study because nobody there to bother them.
But Jeffrey says this is his room, too, and he can come in whenever he wants.

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Well, ostensibly getting that basketball.
He secretly takes something from his dresser drawer.
And he grabs his basketball just as Willie is throwing him out.
They all start complaining about what a pain Willie's little brother is when Jeffrey throws open the door and tosses a few firecrackers into the room.
Lit firecrackers.
And the five guys take cover as if it was a hand grenade tossed in there.
And they all leave the building and discuss how much money they have for this movie they want to see.

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Preach has that 50 cents at a one.
She says, I guess enough to go in.
That means three of them can cover their tickets, but one of them is not going unless they come up with a plan.
Oh, Preach has a plan.
Next we see Cochise and Preach are dealing with a couple of sex workers.
They ask how much it's going to be $15.
Preach tells Cochise to give them the money.

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Instead, Cochise pulls out the badge that had featured in an earlier scene and says they're under arrest for prostitution.
They make the women turn around so they can frisk them little too eagerly and preach his case.
Then preach tell us Cochise by his real name Morris to go get the squad car.
The street walkers beg to not be picked up again and preach calmly announces we take bribes.
How much they ask preach says $10 at the same time Cochise says $20.

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Oh, he said $10.
They go with the lowest bidder.
The money exchanges hands and the other girl gets a better look at that badge.
The lone ranger, Preach and Cochise make a run for it as the two women chase after them shouting rape, rape.
And the next thing we see were in the theater watching a Godzilla movie.
I've read that it was either destroy all monsters or Godzilla versus Mothra.
Cheese wasted no time finding a make out partner and so have Tyrone and Preach.

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Preach with Sandra and Tyrone with Dorothy and Puder has no one.
No Puder is sitting alone.
He gets up to go to the concession stand but he steps on Dorothy's foot.
Tyrone threatens Puder that if he gets up one more time he's going to break his face.
But Puder crawls over them anyway and goes out into the lobby.
When he returns holding three boxes of popcorn it is suggested he find another seat not next to Cochise.

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So Puder goes to an upper row and begins making his way through.
He steps on another patron who stands and tells Puder he's going to kick Puder's ass.
So I'm from the road behind him ask why doesn't he pick on someone's own size.
Then the first guy says he can kick his ass too.
You and one army asked the second guy this army he says shouting disciples and a large number of gang members stand up.
The second guy yells counts and nearly all the other guys stand up.

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Puder tries to take personal responsibility for this little gaff but it's too late.
The fight's on.
As the bra begins Puder preaches Cochise and Tyrone make their way to the front of the theater to escape them a lay.
The fight follows them and patrons in a different theater.
I think Marvel at the fighting silhouetted figures come crashing through the screen.
Now we're back at Preach's house.
He's not home yet but his mother is leaving for whenever jobs.

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And she leaves his sister to the charge of his other younger sister D and preach comes in just as his mother is leaving.
Preach watches her go.
It takes off his coat and throws it onto his younger sister on her head.
And he goes to the kitchen to pester his other sister to the.
He pops her on the head and defies orders to not eat peanut butter.
That's not what mama said to have for dinner.
The phone rings and to the rushes to answer it but preach beats her to it and beats her away from the phone.

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But the phone is for to the anyway so he hands it to her and then goes back to his sandwich.
Toody gets a call from her friend Cheryl.
Hey, let's her know that Bobby's coming over to Cheryl's place.
That's great news as toody.
So she decides she's going over to Cheryl's.
But preach commands her to take D with her or else he'll tell mama what she's up to.
Toody reluctantly grabs D's coat and pulls an excited and smiling D out the door.

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As they walk away preach can hear toody saying who does he think he is God?
And the words of that bitten poem echo through his head.
And then the song my girl starts playing and we see a date between preach and Brenda.
They're just strolling around and so we see a lot of Chicago scenes here.
Then they go back to his room.
They sit on his bed.
He tries to kiss her but his glasses are in the way.

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He removes them in his second shot is successful.
He leans her back onto the bed.
He throws himself on top of Brenda and presses her back onto the mattress.
He tries to get his leg over her and she's not exactly welcoming this at first.
She moves and something like her hip catches him in the groin.
She giggles and asks if he's okay and in a falsetto he says he's fine.
She laughs and they lean back onto the bed again.

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He starts and zipping her dress but she tells him that she can do it.
He jumps up to undress as to she.
She climbs back onto the bed and says she's never done anything like this before.
Preach smiles and draws the shade.
Let me get a love making montage to flute music.
It's slow and sweet.
Afterwards however Brenda is embarrassed and says that she would feel better if she had something on.
Jessica panties and Preach does a comic dive under the sheets to the bottom of the bed to find them.

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And the same with her bursier.
As Brenda is reapplying her skivis, Preach realizes that coach is now owes him a dollar.
And unfortunately for Preach he said that last part out loud.
Oh man.
What a dumbass.
Brenda is pissed.
Is that all she was to him a dollar bet?
She thought he was different and he met the things he was saying.

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Preach lamely protests that he did mean them but she's not listening.
She's definitely not going to believe him.
And that's when 2D and D burst into the room.
Luckily he'd got his drawers on before then.
Didn't I tell you never to come into my room, Yelts Preach?
2D's eyes widened.
Ooh.
I'm going to tell Brenda pushes past them and 2D continues saying, ooh.
Preach closes the door on them and picks up the stockings Brenda left behind.

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As he realizes the full gravity of his unforced error bangs his head into the door.
And now it's time for school.
It's Monday.
Coach East, Willie and Tyrone are walking to class discussing how ready they are or aren't.
In some cases for today's history exam.

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They're going over their cheating strategy.
Preach sees Brenda add her lacquer and says he'll catch up with them later.
He first approaches Brenda and acts like nothing happened between them.
And for that Brenda slams a lacquer door into his forehead.
Preach confidently claims that he must have said something during his kind of epileptic blackout.
Something she has to forgive him for.
It's not his fault.
Yes, he's black homestead.

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He says it does all kinds of weird stuff that he can't remember.
Brenda looks at him, then notices Sandra coming down the hall toward them.
Okay, I forgive you.
She says kissing him and he responds in kind.
And Sandra sees it all.
Then Sandra comes closer.
Brenda pushes Preach into the locker and says that's for yesterday, pastored.
And Brenda and Sandra eyeball each other as Sandra goes over to preach.

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What was that about?
She asks.
He can't answer it and bangs his head into the locker.
Preaches poor head gets a beating in this.
Not Dorothy and Johnny Mayer walking down the hallway and pooters just behind them.
He's juggling his books and he drops one and.
And Dorothy and the funniest to say it says that's what you get.
And then she reports that she can't have friends over for three months.

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I just thought that was a really cute moment.
It seemed totally unscripted and it was just so natural and fun.
Dorothy and Johnny Mayer go into Mr. Mason's class.
Pooters tells them to catch them later because he has his own class to go to.
Then Damon comes up wearing sunglasses.
Mr. Mason tells them to remove the shades while in his class.
Damon does revealing the black guy he was saved in Friday's fight.
Mr. Mason tells them to put them back on and that he better at least get a C on this exam.

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Damon goes in and then Cochise and preach come up.
She's asked about Mason's daughter.
She wants to raptor so bring her on up.
Mason says as soon as I find out where you were last Friday.
Preach tries to sneak in behind the two but Mason snags them with his arm.
He wants to talk to preach.
Mason asks preach where he was all last week.
Preach cops and says that he was sick with the flu.

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Mason says that's a lie because he went over to preach his house twice last week.
After a pause, preach says that he wasn't home. He was staying in his aunt's house.
Then he too goes into the classroom.
Preach box pass Brenda's desk but she has her nose buried in her poetry book so she doesn't have to look at him.
Everyone's talking and Mason says that class starts now and he has to beat his desk with a ruler to get everyone's attention.
He tells the class that if they fail the midterm, they're going to fail the course.

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And that cheating on the midterm is an automatic fail.
Oh, and that reminds him.
He looks at preach and tells him to come sit at his desk for the duration of the test.
Apparently preach has a reputation and preach tries to get out of it by saying, Oh, no, that's your desk, Mr. Mason.
But Mason says that preach is his guest of honor today. Dorothy cackles at this as cochees and the others panic.

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What are they going to do?
They don't know anything.
So preach takes the desk up front and Mr. Mason has Brenda pass on the test just as two detectives enter the room.
They say they have warrants for the rest of Richard Morris a lead Roy Jackson.
Of the two Mason knows the tall black detective. His name is George Mason asked what they're under arrest for George says it's grand theft auto.
So next we see a police officer escorting preach cochees, stone and Robert down a hallway and into separate rooms for interrogation in coches is version of the story.

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They left the party around 1 a.m.
preach on the other hand says they left the party around 3 a.m. then took the Jackson Street bus. But the detective interrupts him saying that he had said before they took the L train so quit lying.
Those stories need to match but they don't have time to sync them up.
Later on we see that Mason has come to intervene on preach and cheeses behalf.
He's trying to convince George that they're good kids who shouldn't have their futures derailed because of a simple joy ride.

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George is not convinced he thinks that cheese and preach need to learn a lesson but Mason doesn't believe that lessons worth ruining their lives for and they're sharing a joint as they negotiate this.
Especially in the case of Richard cochees Morris because he has a future he just received a basketball scholarship and he can lose all of that over this incident.
Or he's will be boys right and Mason says that George himself admitted that they weren't on the scene when the car was actually stolen and that's enough to convince George they'll be out in an hour and he opens the window to let the smoke out.

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Mason thinks him saying Georgia still is made man then he turns and asks about the other two George says no way the record is already too bad to let them off with the warning.
Mason suggests that he can change the auto theft charge to a simple joy ride or something get out of here says George spring air freshener towards Mason.
Mason says see you next Wednesday in some kind of holding room cell cheese and preach compare their stories as stone and Robert listen preach crabs that history isn't the same as cheeses and they didn't leave it one they left it for and that's not what he said in the other scene so it's no wonder they never get their story straight.

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And they say they never even saw stone and Robert who object to being mentioned at all in their version of the story.
Then a detective comes in and says that coaches and preacher free to go but not stone and Robert they're going to be booked and have to stand trial preach and coaches sheepishly stand to leave as Robert and stone glare at them I guess I don't have to tell you told on us as Robert stone nods in agreement and now preach is walking home at night he tries to sneak into his house via the second story window.

(38:27):
He untitled he gets into his pajamas his buttons are all a skew and then he looks on the couch his mom wasn't at home for this so the subject for you was pointless.
He finds no from to the explain that mama's working overtime and will be home late just then the door opens and preach his mother flips on the light.
Hi mama says preach don't hi mama me what you doing right around and stolen cars that was a me mama's they made a mistake that was somebody who looked like me and what's this to the was saying about you in the bed with naked girls.

(38:56):
Mama says you know I work three jobs and I got to trust somebody she orders preach to go and get his belt then mama sinks into a kitchen chair saying that she's tired and she can't do this no more and we find out that this was not in the script.
This was the actual actress saying that she was tired of the scene and couldn't do it anymore but they were recording and if it perfectly.

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And after preach goes to get his belt the actress playing mama literally does fall asleep in that chair preach returns with the belt and says maybe it's time for him to move out but when he looks at his mama he sees that she's asleep and he leans down and kisses her on the head and goes to bed.

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The next day at the school it's Jim class and preaching coach East go in to see some of their friends already playing basketball these friends including Willie and Tyrone don't seem happy to see them they want to know why they're walking around free while stolen robber still locked up preaching coach he said they never said anything but she says no idea why they're the only ones that got out of jail.
Robert Townsend says someone should kick their ass and Damon says stone and Robert will do that soon as they get out later following the history class coach is leaving with his arm around Sandra.

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Mr. Mason's tax code cheese to ask if he knows my preach wasn't in class today and coach he says that he hadn't seen him since Jim Mason runs upstairs to the boys restroom where he finds a craps game already in progress.
Preach however is just there to use the toilet Mason comes in and tells all the guys to get out and leave their dice and cards behind then he tries to talk man to man to preach.

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It just doesn't get preach he reads poetry and history books for fun but he has the worst grades in two states doesn't he want to graduate.
Preach says it doesn't much matter and Mason is disappointed because he's been teaching there for 10 years pushing kids to school just so they can write high school graduate on a job application.
So what is it that preach once because with his brains he could have anything Mason says.

(40:53):
preach looks Mason square in the eye and says he wants to live forever Mason size is done Mason tells preach don't come to me for help again not for jail or nothing and preach lights up you got us out of jail yes Mason admits this and preach says that's great news Mason doesn't get it but he says he's got to find coach and he takes off.
preach finds Jimmy Lee and ask him if he's seen coaches Jimmy says yeah he's using a room to hook up with some girl and he can take preach to him because coach is times just about up anyway when they get to the room they knock on the door.

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Coach is calls out just a minute you ain't got all day Jimmy Lee shouts back coach is unlatches the door and goes back into the room preach runs in anxious to tell coach is what he's learned but he stops short when he sees the girl coach is has been with it's Sandra preach fall silent.
He looks horribly betrayed. She looks a little remorseful and then preach tries to hit coach is Jimmy Lee asks what's going on.

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Coach is explains that preach used to go with this girl preach runs out.
Coach is feeling guilty but Jimmy Lee tells him not to worry about it. It's preach is problem not his he was surprised that this is all over some bitch preach walks through the neighborhood towards Martha's once inside he spots Brenda and Damon sees him.
She says okay and for once he offers a genuine apology and she seems to accept it.

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Preach starts to explain but he stops when he hears Damon greet stolen Robert would just entered.
Damon asked them when they got out and Robert says his preacher bailed him out this morning.
Preach puts on his hat and pulls up his collar for to ask what's wrong and he says he just remembered something.
Then he asked her to beat him in 15 minutes at the L station.
He shows her off and then walks in the opposite direction but Damon sees him and calls him out he turns to greet Damon and then also says hello to stolen Robert seeing the looks on their faces.

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He tries to explain that it's not like that it's not like that what it happened was that Mr Mason got them out they didn't snitch they call bullshit but preach continues we can check out what really went down and we can take it from there but realizing they're not going to check it.
He runs into the occupied washroom a girl sitting on toilet screams is preach locks himself in the washroom with her.
The scene goes on for so long that poor girl she's trying to get him to get out but he locks the door to keep stolen Robert from getting in.

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And he tries to climb up on the toilet tank to get out the window behind her and once again someone is shrieking rape at him from the front counter Martha hears the commotion and reaches for her meat cleaver.
Oh no she tells stolen Robert that they've got to go they call out that preach can't stay in there forever and they'll be waiting for him when he gets out.
Yeah but not in here says Martha inside the washroom preach picks up a plunger I've got something for you suckers he shouts the girl in toilet is still screaming then preach realizes it's gotten quiet good then you can get out of here the girl says but she won't let him open the door.

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She doesn't want people to see her like this she tells me to turn around while she makes herself presentable.
He almost complies but then sneaks a peek before he exits the toilet cell what a dog outside he has a stone face Martha to let him out the side door and onto the street which she begrudgingly does over at that L station Brenda is waiting and she sees her and asked where preach is.

(43:58):
Brenda says preach was supposed to meet her there and she explains that they were at Martha's when stone Robert came in making him act all squirrely.
She's thanks her and then takes off as for preach he's trained out runs stone Robert and Damon or all out looking for him they chase preach down an alley he hides in a dumpster when they run past him it's a very cartoony moment then preach jumps out and runs back the other way he finally makes it to where Brenda is waiting and the two of them hop onto the train she tells him that she saw a cocheese and he was looking for him preach says later for cocheese.

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Preach is in love she goes on to say the cocheese and worried after she told him about stone Robert coming into Martha's and preach the size that he has to get off at the next stop he tells Brenda who call her tonight and explain everything the train then comes to a stop and he jumps off and starts running but I think it might be too late under some train tracks stone Robert and Damon find cocheese he wasn't the one that they were chasing but he'll do Robert holds cocheese from behind while stone repeatedly punches cocheese.

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But she's keep saying hey man it wasn't us but there are no mood to listen after a few more punches to the gut in the head stone and Robert let him go but now Damon wants to go at him and hits him once and it's hard enough to bounce his head off the steel beam supporting the train tracks.
She goes down Damon kicks him telling to get up still in Robert just stare then turn their backs and run Damon kicks cocheese one last time before turning and running himself but she tries to get up and clapses again is about to confuses one time and then is still.

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Preach is Martha's Tyrone's outside and preach asked him about cheese Tyrone points him in the direction of the subway preach asked if stone and Robert were there but Tyrone didn't see them preach runs off promising to explain later is going to have a lot of explain into do.
When preach runs under the tracks he finds cocheese lying on the ground because offer help but the sounds of the train drown out the sounds of his voice I thought that was a really great scene and then we cut to a funeral in the rain preach a standing apart from the other mourners were gathered under a tent.

(45:52):
Preach's mama and family are there and so are some of the classmates from school.
Brent is there but noticeably absent is preach she notices for sure and it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday plays during the scene.
We see preach watching this from a distance has the mourners dispersed and the coffin sinks into the earth.
From the back seat of a car a weeping pooter smiles as he sees preach walking over to the gravesite preach pulls on a bottle of wine and force them out onto the ground with a dudes who ain't here he says then takes a swing.

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And preach says sometimes he walks around expecting to see cheese even sometimes thinks that cheese is going to come to Hollywood with them and vows that he's going to make it there he can cheat and steal to get by until then of course and that put her in the other guys are going to be okay the other night they all got high.
And preach says they told him that coach Eastwood want them all to sitting around wasting their time and that he wrote a poem for him and although he's never read his poetry for anybody even his mother he's going to make an exception in this case he's going to read it for cheese whether he likes it or not because she's was not a fan of poetry he puts his glasses on starts to read we were friends a long time ago laugh in rapping chasing girls obey and no laws except the ones of caring basketball days and high nights no tomorrow.

(47:07):
Unable to remember yesterday we live for today reach apologizes that it doesn't rhyme and tells cheese that he could have been the greatest and then there's a layup with the crumpled up poem into the grave he whispers swish followed by I gotta go then preach runs off to the beats of reach out I'll be there by the four tops then the film lets us know what happened to the remaining characters before the credits play as for preach he went up to Hollywood and did become a successful screenwriter and in a caption that proves that he's going to be a great man.

(47:35):
And in a caption that proves slightly prophetic unfortunately we learned that stone and Robert were both killed in nineteen sixty six during a gas station hold up as for Brenda she became a librarian married with three children and is residing in Atlanta Georgia.
Damon is a sergeant U.S. Army stationed in Europe who there is a factory worker in Muncie Indiana shout out to ball state university located there and Tyrone was killed during an outbreak of racial violence at the nineteen sixty eight democratic convention in Chicago and that's the end.

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You're listening to the American International podcast where we're discussing Kuli high from nineteen seventy five.
Kuli high was filmed from October through November nineteen seventy four in Chicago Illinois.
The only had to take place on a tight schedule because winter in Chicago is no joke and they didn't want to be doing outside scenes then.
While a lot of it was filmed around the Cabrini green housing project in the near north side.

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Some scenes include other areas such as Navy Pier and the Gold Coast screenwriter Eric Matty based the film on his experience.
Attending the real life believe occasional high school which closed in nineteen seventy nine that served students from the Cabrini green public housing project on Chicago's north side.
While the film was set in and around Cabrini green it was primarily filmed at another Chicago area housing project.

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Matty said in an interview with the LA Times in 2015 that he wanted to show the reality of growing up in the projects.
He said I grew up in the Cabrini green housing project and I had one of the best times of my life the most fun you can have while inhaling and exhaling.
It was director Michael Schultz along with producer Stephen Kranz who shaped Monta's numerous stories about his youth into the script for Cooley high.

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According to Odie Henderson author of the book Black Seasers and Foxy Cleopatra's Schultz told Kranz to have a IP send us to Nografer to take down all of Monta's tales.
In an interview with Chicago magazine Schultz said back when we had finished the first chapter of the script we got a note from one of the AIP executives that was one of the best bits of feedback I'd ever received from a studio guy.

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It said something to the effect of this is good. Now go write every scene in a way that you've never seen before that advice came in handy when we were trying to answer the question without being cliche.
How do we find out that Cochise has gotten an athletic scholarship to college.
Schultz devised the scene where Cochise finds a scholarship letter in the toilet and cast his own son Brandon who's have it up doing just that inspired the scene.

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In an MPR interview commemorating the 40th anniversary of Cooley high, Monta said that Cochise's untimely death in the film was inspired by a childhood friend of his who was killed in a similar manner.
Just as preach headed to Hollywood after the death of Cochise, Monta said that after his friend was murdered he hitchhiked all the way to the west coast where he began working for shows such as good times and the Jefferson's.

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According to a May 3rd 1974 Hollywood reporter news item screenwriter Eric Monta was set to play the key teacher in the story. However, the role of Mr. Mason was actually played by Garrett Morris.
A New York stage actor and singer who later in 1975 became one of the original members of Saturday Night Live.
Schultz recalled that AIP objected to Morris's casting at first hoping to see a Sydney poidiate, instead but Morris and actual teacher in the New York City school system won the part anyway.

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Schultz joked that he has never seen a Sydney poidiate type in any school he has ever been in.
The $750,000 budget for Cooley high was enough to cover three name actors, sag actors.
And after hiring them, Gloria Schultz, the film's casting director, filled the rest of the cast with locals.
While some had acting or modeling experience, a good many of the student and family member characters in the movie did not.

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Sherman Smith told the Chicago Tribune in June of 1975 that he and Norman Gibson were hanging out when a car pulled up to where they were standing.
A couple of guys asked us if we wanted to be in a movie.
We thought they were playing with us, but we took this card and then showed up at the audition.
We read from the scripts and we both got parts and that's who played Stone and Robert.
Cynthia Davis, who played Brenda, was told of the audition by her modeling agent who thought she'd be perfect for the part.

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Davis told the Chicago Tribune she earned around $800 per week for her six weeks of work on the film.
And those she hoped to believe in future acting jobs, she knew it wouldn't be easy.
I'm trying not to be overconfident about it.
I know that show business is very chancy, chancy, complicated, and phony.
Her role in Cooley High was her only credited acting job though.
The film was set at Edwin G. Cooley High School, which is shown in exterior shots in the film.

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But the scenes in the school were filmed at Providence St. Mel High School in East Garfield Park.
Cooley I was named after the turn of the century superintendent of public schools in Chicago.
The song, "It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday by Motown Label Recording Artist, G. C. Cameron, makes its debut in this film.
The film soundtrack features a number of Motown hits that director Schultz said he got the rights to use at a low price because of the time.

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Other film producers didn't want to use those classics. No one valued Motown music but us," he said.
Cooley I had a premiere in Chicago on June 26, 1975 at the state lake theater. Director Michael Schultz and writer Eric Monti were invited to attend.
And Laurence Hilton Jacobs, Glenturner and Garrett Morris were among the cast expected to attend, along with Corn Rogers, Jackie Taylor, Sherman Smith, and Cynthia Davis.

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The premiere served as a benefit for the community film workshop of Chicago.
The official premiere day for Cooley High was June 25, 1975, when it opened in New York and Detroit.
The tagline in the ad for Cooley High was where the student body was a chick named Veronica. The senior prom was a belly rub and the class of '64 ran a permanent crap game in the men's room.
That quote was used in the ads and other promotional materials for the movie. But by July, ads for Cooley High featured quotes pulled from positive newspaper reviews rather than the unserious tagline.

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Fox office magazine advised theater owners to play up the black American graffiti angle after George Lucas's film released two years earlier. Though it was set in the same era, the movie had only a superficial similarity to that film.
Nevertheless, that like this made a convenient touchstone for almost every film reviewer who tried to describe Cooley High to their white raiders for the most part.
Cooley High was a big success for AIP pulling in $13 million and becoming the 33rd highest grossing film of the year domestically.

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In the Chicago Tribune, Aaron Golds column reported that the student actors at the Bully High premiere he attended laughed a great deal and were touched by what they saw.
Many cried bitter yet knowing tears at the movie that so vividly depicted a slice of the black experience at the high school level.
Gene Ciscal and the Chicago Tribune, give the film a three and a half star review, writing,
quote, "Petty theft about with gorilla dung and the groping of some girls in a hallway leave you with the impression that Cooley High is going to be nothing more than a series of routine and unfunny gags.

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But then the film's magic begins to work and Cooley High turns into a baguiling story that's affecting lasting and worth seeing more than once."
Eprey's Glenn term in saying, "Termin as preached stands out as one of the most likable characters in any movie this year.
American International, the releasing company ought to give him a promotional push at awards time and I don't think they did."
Angorino and the New York Daily News wrote that Eric Montey of TV's Good Times fame has written Cooley High, an amusing account of high school students of the 1960s.

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Although said to be autobiographical, the movie recalls the ambience of American graffiti and is markedly a parallel black style.
Jax later in the New York Times wrote in his review that, quote, "Because it takes a backward glance, the movie is now being called a black American graffiti but it has, in my view, bar more vitality and variety than graffiti, which profiled board to sparing use in small town America of the early 60s.

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No one in Cooley High is bored. Like the earlier film however, Cooley does remind us almost incidentally of who we once were. Reminds those of us who grew up black during the 50s and early 60s. Of the sense of self we managed to achieve during those years."
Also in the New York Times, Lawrence Van Gilder wrote that, "Cooley High pulsates with the careless exuberance of youth and captivates with characterizations and incidents presented not for the sake of nostalgia, but of the kind of understanding that cherishes and makes peace with the past."

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Martin Levine in Newsday wrote, "Cooley High has an impressive era of integrity and authenticity. We don't need American international pictures assurance that the script was written, quote, "almost autobiographically." Or that Schultz's quote, "A brilliant young black director to feel that the performance accents, their speech rhythms and overlapping jiving, even the matter of fact presentation of a decayed neighborhood brings us closer to lower class black life than is usual for Hollywood."

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Bucks of Us magazine wrote, "This Steve Cran's production is an entertaining mixture of comedy and tragedy. Dreams get shattered and broken by reality, but there's a lot of fun along the way. Since many black films have been exploitation entries with much violence, Cooley High is a welcome relief. It has a touch of humanity and presents characters with real emotional feelings."
Susan Stark's Detroit Free Press review was titled, "Cooley High is more than a black graffiti."

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And she wrote that, quote, "At first glance, Cooley High looks like nothing more than a low-budget version of American graffiti addressed to black moviegoers. It is that a derivative minimally financed production from American international, even at film's end. But at film's end, it is something more too. Thanks largely to the spirited performances of the two leads."
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs and Glenn Enderman, Cooley High asserts itself as a valuable piece of work, valuable because it appears to be an authentic account of how it was for black kids in Chicago of the '60s. She concluded her review saying, "Too bad this film is being pitched exclusively to a black audience. White people would enjoy it just as much as blacks, but in a different way as an instructive entertainment rather than an entertaining look at the past."

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Jacqueline Truscott of the Washington Post ate the film a middling raid saying, "It's nostalgia was deja vu and hackneyed, and I accept it, even. She found several comic scenes to be well executed, but these passages still lack a distinctive look and enough fired raised Cooley above the mediocre mark."
Gil Pallard at the Miami Herald was also Luke Worm writing, "A musical trip full of soulful oldies, Cooley High is a mildly enjoyable experience in black nostalgia. There is to be sure not much plot and what there is quickly becomes a backwash of American graffiti. Even down to its where are they now ending. But never mind, it's fun."

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ABC planned a television adaptation of Cooley High, but the pilot was poorly received and Fred Silverman, the head of the network, asked the pilot's producers to retool the show. It was turned sitcom with some new characters and with a new title so as not to confuse it with Montess Film Cooley High.
After adding new writers and new cast members and a change from one camera to three camera filming, the movie was turned into the show "What's Happening?"

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The pilot was picked up and what's happening man from August of 1976 through April of 1979. The show and the production company were then purchased by Columbia Pictures Television in 1979 and ran intensification for a number of years after that. Some similarities remain though.
The main character of Raj is very much like Peach and his mama and little sister D, as well as the pooter stand in Dwayne, are all close parallels to the film's characters.

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Eric Montess sued the producers of what's happening, claiming that he did not receive proper credit as a creator of the series. A title card at the very end of "What's Happening's Credits" reads, suggested by the American International Picture Cooley High, 1975, written by Eric Monti.
Monti claimed that he was promised credit as a producer. In 1977, he filed a lawsuit accusing "good times" developer Norman Lear, among other producers and networks of stealing his ideas.

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He reportedly received a $1 million settlement. According to an interview with director Schultz, Monti had a hard time finding work after that.
"He was effectively white bald," Schultz said. Monti blew much of his settlement on the production of a play he had written. The failure of that began a downward spiral and at one point, Monti became addicted to crack and ended up homeless.
In 1991, boys to men recorded a cover of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye" yesterday for their album "Cooley High Harmony," the title of which got its inspiration from "Cooley High."

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"Cooley High" is said to have been a profound influence on directors like Spike Lee and John Singleton, whose 1991 film "Boys in the Hood" is a direct homage.
A year after "Cooley High" was released, Norman Gibson, who played Robert, was shot and killed in Chicago. Sherman Smith later went to prison for eight years, but afterwards changed his name to Rick Stone, and after his release started acting again, and still living in the Cabrini Green area, appeared in over 20 stage productions.

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"Cooley High" was listed as number 23 on Entertainment Weekly's 2015 list of the 50 Best High School Movies. In 2008, it appeared on Time Magazine's list of the 25 most important films about race, and its number 17 on Spike Lee's Essential Films List.
In July of 2016, Deadline reported that MGM was developing a remake of "Cooley High" with Devon Franklin, Amin, and Tony Crance. Seth Brosenfeld would write the screenplay.

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As of this recording, this project has yet to see the late of day.
I don't know that we need it. And the criterion collection released "Cooley High" on Blu-ray in December of 2022.
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Well, as Cheryl, we're talking about "Cooley High" and "Law has been said and written about this film."

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Oh, yeah. Doing the research for this took a long time, because a lot of people have celebrated it. 2025 marks its 50th anniversary. I expect we'll see more of that.
But its 40th anniversary was pretty well chronical as well.
As we mentioned, "Cooley High" has been added to the criterion collection, which is considered to be a pretty select group of films, and AIP isn't have a lot of representation in that collection.

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I wonder why.
Just a couple of the pommel films besides this one. Clearly makes sense that this movie would be among the elite few who made it to the criterion collection.
Because this is a fantastic movie.
What about it? Did you think it was fantastic?
There's a lot of things I think are really good about this movie. I do have a couple of problems with it, but they don't overshadow that at all.
First of all, the skill with which this movie takes you in is just amazing.

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You think you're watching this movie of goofy high school kids and their hijinks. And a lot of sudden you realize that this whole movie has set you up for this enormous tragedy at the end that you never saw coming.
But when you look back and for us who was watching the second time, you see every step they took to put all this into motion.
Yeah, it's pretty incredible. The screenplay is so tight. Everything in here matters later.

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As silly as it seems. And when you look at how this was written, it was basically somebody telling stories and they compiled them and kind of turned into a script.
So the fact that it works out like this is just mind boggling.
I'm getting chills just thinking about how well done this is.
Literally every little thing that at first glance seems just like an incident.

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Two boys make a bed on a boy betting a girl, a joyride.
Getting out of jail because your friends with the teacher every little thing that happens. It all adds up to this.
Everything has a consequence later in the film.
Right. And that's like life. But like life, you don't see it coming until it's happened.
I mean, sometimes you can. But for this, no one could have seen this coming. It just happened. And it's tragic. And it's moving and it's important.

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Well, it all happens so fast like life does. The movie opens with Cochise going to get his friend down a bed and take him to school, which they immediately skip.
And then the scoop of kids are just running everywhere.
Yeah, it's so fast paced. I heard someone else compare this to the 400 blows. And although I see it being very different, that part of it does track where it's just kids being kids out on the street having fun.

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And it is fun to watch. It's fun for us as the audience. But then looking back, you see how this net is tightening around the characters until they're inevitable fates play out.
And it's so sad. All that happiness that you had building up turns to tragedy. And it just hits you like, well, like a steel beam supporting the hell.
How monumental this all is. It's amazing that a movie could do this, especially in a IP movie.

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But when you consider that even though there are a lot of characters in this movie, a lot of them are inconsequential for the four friends who are introduced to it at the beginning or Cochise.
He obviously matters, preach matters, pooter matters as comic relief, I guess, and Willie who doesn't really matter much at all.
No, he just kind of pops in and out of the film and Tyrone serves that same purpose.

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I don't know why they need both of them, but I don't mind. And part of the thing that I really do like about this movie is the cast. Obviously, Glenn Termin does a show stopping job as preach is just fantastic in this movie.
Even though I didn't write it all down, every review I found praised his performance and why wasn't he submitted for Oscar consideration or was he I don't know but he should have been.

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Because he's that good and Lauren's Hilton Jacobs is really good too. You know, before this podcast, I only knew him as Freddie Boom Boom Washington on Welcome Back Cater, but there's a lot more to him.
Well episode 19 we didn't young blood and he featured in that.
And he was good in that, but I think he was a lot more alive here.
Because he was one of the main characters until he ended both films.

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Oh, Jeff G's. His legacy lived on. We're watching a movie about at least a character like him 50 years later. It's still talking about it.
So he is alive. He's very much alive. And he had so much going for him. That's obviously a key part of the tragedy is that he had such a future to look forward to.
And it was his life that was cut short because of the stupid joyride, which to be fair was his idea.

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Well, other entire cast there were only three professional actors, at least at this time it was Glenn Termin, of course Lauren's Hilton Jacobs and Garrett Morris.
And everybody else was just cast from being in the Chicago area.
And I think that's part of the charm of this movie. There aren't big name actors and some of the people aren't even actors.
The women who played preaches and coches his mothers and some of the other students. They're just there. They don't have acting experience, but they're so natural and they're so fun to watch.

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And they're just so realistic. They add such a dimension to this movie that professional actors would not have added.
And even of the other some of them had at least brief careers. Jackie Taylor who played Johnny May opened up a theater company in Chicago and eventually did appearance some movies later on as well, including interestingly enough to serve with love part two with Sydney Poitier.

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Oh, wow. That was a meet made for TV movie. And there's Steven Williams who played Jimmy Lee who went on to have a pretty successful career.
Oh, yeah. And a spoiler alert. He's going to be featured in the next movie we talk about as well.
And he was not credit here but Robert Townsend is in this movie as well.
Yet a very bit part and we'll see him next movie too. Well, the next movie was shot in Chicago. So a lot of these people came back because they were trying to make a career.

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We see Joseph Carter Wilson who played Tyrone. He appears in that film as just Nathaniel Reed played the detective George here and Lynn Caridine who plays Dorothy appears in it as well.
Speaking of Lynn Caridine as Dorothy. Her character is my favorite in this movie.
Oh, same here. She is so funny trying to protect her apartment from the party goers standing soldier like at the door not letting anyone pass and yet still being romance by Tyrone out of a few quarters and punching Tyrone after he shoves her.

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She's amazing in this movie. I don't know what her background was before she got here. I think she had obviously acting experience, but she is so natural and fun in this movie.
I can imagine looking to Hollywood for a name for this instead of having her here and she has a much larger part in the monkey hustle, but it's not as memorable of performance.
No, and I think we mentioned that the scene with preaches mom finding out the preacher gone to jail and et cetera, et cetera.

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That scene was a non professional actress. She just happened to be there and this woman really did have three jobs and she really was exhausted.
They run such a tight shooting schedule. They're shooting like 14 hour days. And so that was her exhausted at the end of the day talking about how exhausted she was.
And in that moment, it's the most natural thing. It's so realistic. We don't get to see her say it because it wasn't for camera, but they used it anyways.

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But I could totally relate to that. She's so honest and real there and that honesty and realness permeates the whole film and I just love it for that.
So much of that could be seen in this film. The conversations between the guys, they're very natural. They're ragging on each other. They're just having fun just boys being boys.
It's very realistic. I won't call it an objection, but the only thing I think this movie could have added is maybe a little more life to the female characters.

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But I get that it's not about them. It's about preaching co-chees their relationship and the tragedy that befell co-chees, but their characters are also womanizers.
They're just out to get laid in some cases. Although I do believe that preach really did fall for Brenda, but I mean, it's because she was so pretty, but I think he really did grow to like her.
But you know, they do seem a little casual in their relationships towards women. They rip off the hookers preach, disappoints his family and teases his sisters.

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So not super aware of the women in their life and how their actions affect them. But again, they're high school boys and I wouldn't really expect that.
I'd say of the kids, the ones who are girls, the three that stand out are going to be Brenda, probably reasons Dorothy, just because she does.
She made herself stand out.
And Loretta Brown.
You think so? She's only in one scene.

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She's only in one scene, but she seems like a very unusual person.
Yeah, it's hard to describe her affect when she's talking to you.
She doesn't close her mouth ever.
She is a big fan of her cheese because he's a basketball star. It seems like all the girls are into him and he takes advantage of that.
But she was very into him and she had no problem cheating on Damon with him.

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However, that actually is a very pivotal thing that she does because had she not done that her cheese would not have made an enemy of Damon who was the one who killed him.
And again, that's the script tying everything together.
Things they happen in the script that don't have consequences later are when they're at the zoo.
That's just a day at the zoo.
They're stealing peanuts and marshmallows teasing the gorilla, which I guess has consequences in that.

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Putter has poop thrown on him when they throw marshmallows to the gorilla.
Oh, right.
But beyond that, the poop incident doesn't have anything except that they all avoid him on the train.
Well, I guess a comic.
And that's all comic stuff.
That's not vital to the plot.
It's not important enough to even be there. It's just there for us to get to know these characters and enjoy their presence.
I would argue that it does have value to the plot because we learn that it'll take school very seriously.

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Preach has been skipping this history class all week.
And it shows how much they value having fun over school.
So in that case, it does have consequences.
So I think that does teach us something very valuable about the characters.
And the way they are is why they have those consequences.
So I would argue it is important. It does need to be there.
But it could have been anything.

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It could have been just a day at the zoo.
They didn't have to have those little bits in there is what I'm saying because.
Oh, well, yeah, but it gives us a chance to know them, which is what I said.
It's preach who distracts the hot dog vendor.
And we see how he has a way with words and how quick thinking he is.
And the others are the ones in back just stealing stuff.
So we learned that preach is leader of the group.

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If some scam is going to be pulled, it's going to be preach doing it.
Use the mastermind behind almost everything they do.
So we do learn that.
And the fact that we can look at these silly incidents and make such a big thing about them is another reason why this script is so incredible.
All this nothing happens when we first watched it.
We're like, oh, wow, this is going to be.
Well, you were.
When we first watched this, I was going to be like, wow, this is going to be so easy to talk about.

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But then the second.
I was so sure.
The second watch, you just see how important every little thing is the only thing I would say is not important is that one scene with Jimmy Lee and his mark and the fake prostitute that could have been cut from the film.
We don't need to know that Jimmy Lee does that.
Like we knew he was out with a client.
That was just a bit of color added to it.

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It was funny and it was a good scene, but it wasn't about our main characters.
I didn't add anything to what we know about Jimmy Lee. We already know him and jail and build out we didn't know why but now we do he's.
I want to be pip is a pimple without a stable.
He doesn't need one apparently.
No, it looks like he does pretty well for himself.
So good for him for not taking advantage of women and yet still making money.

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I just love everything about this movie and I'm ashamed that I've never seen it before or even heard about it before this podcast.
I'm even more ashamed because I've had it on my show for years and I did put it on once and I turned it off after a few minutes because the sound quality really is neck right here.
It's a little budget film and I just didn't have the patience for it at that time.
So I had never seen it all the way through.

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And one of the things speaking of sounds that should be mentioned is the soundtrack.
What a great soundtrack we are blessed with in this movie.
It's a blessing and a curse. It's because of the soundtrack that it gets compared to American graffiti.
That's true and unfortunate and it's not like I know a lot about American Graffiti.
I think I watched it a long time ago.
I think that comparison is odious as they say because it really is reductive for this movie.

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It really is nothing like American graffiti.
American graffiti is a bunch of different characters and it's all one night.
This center is around main characters and they have interactions with others.
But we stick with basically preach and co-cheese throughout the entire film.
And what happens to them actually matters as opposed to just one night of hijinks.
Even hijinks. They're just like the last day of summer or something or somebody's going off the college.

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Somebody's signing whether or not to go. Somebody's going to join the army.
Yeah.
It's just their last night at home.
Because there's so many consequences to this chicanery that goes on.
But there are really good songs in that I didn't know that it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday,
which I knew as a boy's demand song came from this movie from a different artist.
It's a great song.
I wasn't familiar with the song, but I didn't know that there was an album called “Cooley High Harmony"

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and I assumed that it was named after the film.
It's so perfectly played in this movie.
Although I kind of think it should have been the last song in the movie.
I think it would have been great for under the credits and finding out what happened to everybody.
I disagree with you there.
I think that playing that over the funeral is just natural.
And then having it go upbeat again because co-cheese's life is over, but preachers is just beginning.

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But in our epilogue, we learned that three other characters died on timely deaths.
And that's sad, but they're not the main characters here.
I think they could have skipped that epilogue, to be honest, especially since one of the actors died
in a manner very similar to the way his character died.
I don't know.
It just hits it a little hard for me that it was so prophetic for just that one person, but still.
And only about a year after the film premiered.

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Anytime I see that gimmick in a movie, I kind of like, "Muh, again, I don't think it really matters
because I like to go with my own ideas on what happens to the characters that is if I care enough
and I'm invested enough in them to wonder how their future is going to be."
I think the slide describing what happened to preach was important, but nobody else needed to be there.
Right. And we know what happens to preach because we, you and me, we know that he's the Eric Monti stand in for this movie.

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Right. But if you're just going to see a movie, you might not know that I think it's important to add that in there.
Yeah. This guy made it.
But as for everyone else, I think they're just unnecessary.
I mentioned some of the actors who appeared in the Monkey Hustle as well as also being shot in Chicago
and at Lawrence Hilton- Jacobs would show up in Youngblood.
But we will also see Glynn Turman again.
He does a voice and fits the cats, but he won't see him there.

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But he also appears in JD's revenge.
Which we're really looking forward to, but it's not on the schedule yet.
And I know him from a different world.
And I know him from Gremlins.
And he was in the wire too, and that's one of my favorite shows.
And anyone in that show is an automatic person I will follow forever.
So I knew that he was going to be good in this.
He's just good. He's great actor.

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So I think I know where this is going, Cheryl.
But do you want to justify your rating?
You used our AIP scale of A is awesome.
I is intermediate and piece pathetic.
Well, not only am we going to give this an A, obviously.
But I'm going to revise my pick for the best movie we've ever done for this podcast and say it was really high.
Because this movie is so good because I still have goosebumps from it.

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And I just loved everything about it.
Aside from a minor nitpick here there.
But I don't really think I need to say anymore about why this is an A movie.
This is an A movie.
It's just not even questionable for me.
And I'm going to guess that you would think it's an A movie too.
Well, coolie.
Hi is an example of everything I love about film.
I don't know if you know this about me, but I really like movies.

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I have kind of picked up on that.
And I really like talking about them.
I know you.
And this seems so simple in its execution.
It's a low budget film.
They're using non-actors for the most part.
But the performances they get are all so genuine.
Maybe it's because they're not actors.
Everybody just seems like they belong in this town.
And it's because they do.

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This is a slice of life.
A lot of them were still there after the movie ended.
And they were there when Monkey Hustle came to town.
So they were able to do another movie.
You're right.
There's nothing artificial or contrived here.
And I'm not going to just say this is one of the best movies we've seen from AIP.
This is one of the best movies I've seen period.
I don't even know what else to say.
If there is one thing that I would change about this is I would have given the character of

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Pood or more to do.
He's almost really good at being comic relief.
We got the bit with the badge.
And I would have liked to have seen more of that.
Yeah, he's adorable in this movie.
I don't think we mentioned it.
He's an actual teenager.
He's 15 in this movie.
Glynn Turman is 30.
So he has half Glynn Turman's age in this movie.
But he is such a great character and very much underutilized as to what he could have been.

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He's not one of the main two.
So I can see why they didn't really focus on him.
But we know less about him than we know about Dorothy.
And with the name like Pooter or he just dying to know more.
Why is he named Pooter or I mean, I can guess, but they should tell us.
He smells like gorrila poop.
Can see why Preach is called Preach.
He's got that way with words.
Apparently Eric Monte's nickname was “Reverend” when he was growing up.

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Oh, well, yeah.
And for the same reason, I'm sure the way with words.
But she's probably picked just a cool name because he's a cool guy.
And really in Tyrone go by their real names.
So Pooder is the mystery, the enigma here.
But it's a silly nickname and he's a silly character.
So that makes sense.
So despite not giving Pooder enough to do, I'm going to give Kool-E-Hi in A+.

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And I'll give it A+.
Because I got a one up you.
I think we've said it already.
We told you about the movie.
We told you the history behind it.
We told you the other reactions.
We told you our reactions.
How could you not conclude that this is a plus movie?
As I mentioned at the top of this podcast, we have a website that you can use to contact us.
Tell us how right we are about Cooley High because I will accept no notions to the contrary.

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It's a-i-p-p-o-d.com-a-p-p-p-a-p-a-p-a-d.com.
When you're there, you can look at trailers, lobby cards, posters, etc.
And find out a little bit more about American International Pictures.
So we hope to see you there.
And we hope to hear from you how right we are.
And you can tell us anything else you like too.
And again, thanks to Lowell B for reaching out and also for our review, which we really appreciate.
Class is dismissed for the Cooley High episode of the American International Podcast.

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I'm Jeff Markin.
And I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
And we'll meet you at the drive-in.
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The American International Podcast is produced and edited by Jeff Markin.

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A man whose mind is distorted by hatred.
And Cheryl Lightfoot.
A girl hungry for too many things.
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