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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

Fred Coe

1972 • 1h 13m

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 pimp...

If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
Cast
Donna M. BryanBillie Jean Sims
James Broderick
James BroderickTrick
Georgia BurkeGrannie
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence FishburneFish
Sonny Jim GainesMr. Sims
Arthur French
Arthur FrenchCustomer
Moses Gunn
Moses GunnMr. Miller
Albert Hall
Albert HallT-Bone Sims
Dots Johnson
Dots JohnsonJim
John MarriottJessie
George MilesShake-a-Hand
Haywood Nelson
Haywood NelsonRonnie
Jim PelhamEddie
Joseph RayWalkin' Willie
Dick SabolPrison Guard
Crew
David Susskind
David SusskindProducer
Fred Coe
Fred CoeDirector
Lee Dichter
Lee DichterSound Mixer
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