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.

The Crew

Clarice Taylor

Mrs. Brooks

Leonard Jackson

Mr. Brooks

Virginia Capers

Ruby

Glynn Turman

Gideon

Dick Anthony Williams

Preston

Carl Franklin

Marvin

Ja'net DuBois

Stormy Monday

D'Urville Martin

Booker T.

Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey Cambridge

Sonny Jim Gaines

Sweetmeat