| Black Joy | |
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| Directed by | Anthony Simmons |
| Produced by | Elliott Kastner Arnon Milchan Martin Campbell |
| Written by | Jamal Ali |
| Starring | Norman Beaton Trevor Thomas |
| Music by | Gladys Knight and the Pips Aretha Franklin Jimmy Helms The Drifters Ben E. King The O'Jays |
| Cinematography | Phil Meheux |
| Editing by | Thom Noble |
| Distributed by | ITC Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 1977 |
| Running time | 110 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Black Joy is a British film released in 1977, directed by Anthony Simmons. The story of an immigrant country boy in Brixton, London, it has been described as the UK's only example of a "Blaxploitation" movie, a genre more familiar in the United States. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
The film is a lightly ironic, British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas heads the cast as a Guyanan youth who is under the delusion that life will be easier for him in London. No sooner does Thomas set foot in England than he gets tangled up in one disaster after another. The catalyst for most of Our Hero's travails is "assimilated" Caribbean Norman Beaton, who plays a streetwise con artist.
The film was adapted from Dark Days and Light Nights, a stage play by Jamal Ali who also wrote the screenplay.
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