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Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to Tennessee when he was 11 years old. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of 19 with two degrees in engineering. An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama. He later abandoned the car dealership after developing an interest in motion pictures around 1913. He was hired by the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the French-born director Maurice Tourneur.
After serving in World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Great Redeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.
Actors: Glynn Turman (actor), Lynn Whitfield (actress), James Russo (actor), Anne Carr (miscellaneous crew), Gary Teague (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Clyde Jones (actor), Justin Meeks (actor), Tyson Beckford (actor), Garry Peters (actor), Paul Knaus (miscellaneous crew), Andrew P. Jones (writer), Andrew P. Jones (producer), Andrew P. Jones (director),
Plot: Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the back-breaking injustice of the chain gang. He returns to a bleak urban town caught in the depths of the Great Depression - no jobs, no prospects, no hope - where he is thrown together with four strangers, each struggling to survive as they scratch and scheme to dig their way out of poverty. Life is grim. But on Sunday nights, in a dingy hall in a forlorn neighborhood, the men of the ghetto piece together the finest attire their meager lives can beg, borrow or steal to compete in an underground contest like no other. The big winner will go home with the five dollar prize. The real prize - far less tangible, yet priceless - is the chance to feel like a king, if just for an evening. To men like these, the touch of a woman, the adulation of the crowd, the feel of a fine-looking suit are proof enough that a man might yet escape the debasement of the ghetto. And only one can emerge - King of the Evening.
Keywords: title-in-titleActors: Joyce King (miscellaneous crew), Gerald Fried (composer), John Erman (director), Garson Kanin (writer), John Rubinstein (actor), Brian Keith (actor), Travilla (costume designer), Barry Bostwick (actor), Harold Gould (actor), David L. Wolper (producer), Hank Garrett (actor), Stan Margulies (producer), Audra Lindley (actress), Mackenzie Phillips (actress), James Olson (actor),
Genres: Drama,