Cinema: Chicken Flickin'

WHICH WAY IS UP? Directed by Michael Schultz Screenplay by Carl Gottlieb and Cecil Brown

Now, lessee. Yeah. Richard Pryor, he spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an—OOO-EE!—next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard—name's Leroy Jones in duh movie—rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine.

Pretty soon Leroy finds himself in Los Angeles, shacked up...

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