The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Release: 1976-07-16
·Runtime: 111m
·★ 5.9
Comedy
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Motown Productions
Pan Arts Enterprises
Trailers & Videos
Cast
John McCurry
as Murch
Tony Burton
as Issac
James Earl Jones
as Leon
Sarina C. Grant
as Pearline
Stan Shaw
as Esquire Joe
DeWayne Jessie
as Rainbow
Mabel King
as Bertha
Alvin Childress
as Horace
Marcia McBroom
as Violet
Ahna Capri
as The Prostitute
Ken Foree
as Honey
Joel Fluellen
as Mr. Holland
John McKee
as White Stranger
Billy Dee Williams
as Bingo
Richard Pryor
as Charlie Snow
Jophery C. Brown
as Champ
Ted Ross
as Sallie