Archie Pool

Archie Pool

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Playing Away
Title: Playing Away
Character: Steadroy
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
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Success Is the Best Revenge
Title: Success Is the Best Revenge
Character: Casius Banghali
Released: May 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
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Ghost Dance
Title: Ghost Dance
Character: of Myths
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
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Title: Wolcott
Character: Headphones
Released: January 13, 1981
Type: TV
A black policeman is promoted to the CID and battles the drug trade in London's East End.
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Babylon
Title: Babylon
Character: Dreadhead
Released: November 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
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A Hole in Babylon
Title: A Hole in Babylon
Character: Wes Dick
Released: November 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a situation out of their control.
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Pressure
Title: Pressure
Character: Oscar
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.