See China and Die
1981 American TV series or program
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Genre | Crime Drama |
Written by | Larry Cohen |
Directed by | Larry Cohen |
Starring | Esther Rolle Kene Holliday |
Music by | Joey Levine and Chris Palmaro |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Larry Cohen Hal Schaffel |
Cinematography | Paul Glickman |
Editor | Armond Lebowitz |
Running time | 86 minutes |
Production company | Big Hit Productions |
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Network | NBC |
Release | January 9, 1981 (1981-01-09) |
See China and Die (released in Europe as Hearsay) is a 1981 television film written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen.
Premise
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China. She acts as an amateur sleuth to solve the murder of her employer.[1]
Cast
- Esther Rolle as Momma Sykes[2]
- Kene Holliday as Sgt. Alvin Sykes
- Frank Converse as Tom Hackman
- Paul Dooley as Ames Prescott
- Andrew Duggan as Edwin Forbes
- Laurence Luckinbill as Dr. Glickman
- Jean Marsh as Sally Hackman
- Fritz Weaver as Poston
- Jane Hitchcock as Ruth
- Claude Brooks as Jessie Sykes
- William Walker II as Andy Sykes
- Miguel Pinero as Gonzalez
- James Dukas as Transplant[3]
Production
The film was originally produced as a pilot for a mystery/crime series starring Esther Rolle called Momma the Detective, but the show never materialized.[4]
References
- ^ Roberts, Jerry (5 June 2009). Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810863781 – via Google Books.
- ^ McCann, Bob (27 October 2018). Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786437900 – via Google Books.
- ^ III, Harris M. Lentz (17 April 2009). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2008: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN 9780786453849 – via Google Books.
- ^ Williams, Tony (18 April 2016). Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, rev. ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476618197 – via Google Books.
External links
- See China and Die at IMDb
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Works by Larry Cohen
- Bone (1972)
- Black Caesar (1973)
- Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
- It's Alive (1974)
- God Told Me To (1976)
- The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
- It Lives Again (1978)
- See China and Die (1981)
- Full Moon High (1981)
- Q (1982)
- Special Effects (1984)
- Perfect Strangers (1984)
- The Stuff (1985)
- It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
- A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
- Deadly Illusion (1987)
- Wicked Stepmother (1989)
- The Ambulance (1990)
- As Good as Dead (1995)
- Original Gangstas (1996)
- "Pick Me Up" (TV, 2006)
- Branded (1965–66)
- Blue Light (1966)
- Coronet Blue (1967)
- The Invaders (1967–68)
- Cool Million (1972)
- Griff (1973–74)
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