A Man Called Adam (1966)
Directed by Leo Penn
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Synopsis by John Bush
A star-studded cast invigorates this film of a jazz trumpeter (Sammy Davis Jr.) who experiences both the prejudices of the music industry and terrible guilt following the traffic accident that killed his family, a tragedy he feels personally responsible for. Co-stars include several giants of jazz and popular music: Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ossie Davis, and Mel Tormé, as well as Peter Lawford and Cicely Tyson.
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music, accident, activism, backstage, bitterness, Black [race], car, career, casino, death, guilt, jazz, love, prejudice, segregation, self-pity, south, spurned, stage
