Five on the Black Hand Side

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

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  Clarice Taylor

  Mrs. Brooks
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  Leonard Jackson

  Mr. Brooks
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  Virginia Capers

  Ruby
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  Glynn Turman

  Gideon
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  Dick Anthony Williams

  Preston
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  Carl Franklin

  Marvin
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  Ja'net DuBois

  Stormy Monday
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  D'Urville Martin

  Booker T.
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  Godfrey Cambridge

  Godfrey Cambridge
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  Henry G. Sanders

  Barber Shop Patron (uncredited)