Sweet Love, Bitter(1967)
It's Like It Really Is, Baby!
A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.
Movie: Sweet Love, Bitter
Top 10 Billed Cast
Richie 'Eagle' Stokes
Keel Robinson
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