If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972)

The story of ghetto boy and girl trying to raise money for the girl to visit her father in prison.

  • Genre: TV Movie, Drama, Comedy
  • Release Date: 1972-12-19
  • User Rating: 1/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 13min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Fred Coe
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Summary

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.

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  • Donna M. Bryan

    as Billie Jean Sims

  • James Broderick

    as Trick

  • Georgia Burke

    as Grannie

  • Laurence Fishburne

    as Fish

  • Sonny Jim Gaines

    as Mr. Sims

  • Arthur French

    as Customer

  • Moses Gunn

    as Mr. Miller

  • Albert Hall

    as T-Bone Sims

  • Dots Johnson

    as Jim

  • John Marriott

    as Jessie

  • George Miles

    as Shake-a-Hand

  • Haywood Nelson

    as Ronnie

  • Jim Pelham

    as Eddie

  • Joseph Ray

    as Walkin' Willie

  • Dick Sabol

    as Prison Guard
Production David Susskind Producer
Art Richard Merrell Set Decoration
Production William Pelt Production Assistant
Directing Fred Coe Director
Art Robert Gundlach Art Direction
Sound Lee Dichter Sound Mixer
Production Pamela Susskind Associate Producer
Camera Michael Lieberman Director of Photography
Sound Blake Norton Sound
Editing Arline Garson Editor
Writing Stanley L. Gray Writer
Production Maury Beaumont Unit Manager
Camera Jake Ostroff Director of Photography
Production Hal Schaffel Production Manager
Directing B.J. Bachman Continuity
Sound Jacob Stern Music Supervisor
Lighting Ferd Manning Lighting Director
Crew Tom Horin Technical Supervisor
Crew Martin Begley Supervising Technical Director

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