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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is a 1976 American sports comedy film about a team of enterprising ex- Negro league baseball players in the era of racial segregation. Loosely based upon William Brashler 's 1973 novel of the same name, it starred Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor.
Jul 13, 1977 · In the late 1930s during racial segregation, a star of the Negro League Baseball, Bingo Long, leaves his team and convinces other stars of the league to join him as free agent players touring the towns of the Midwest.
- (2.2K)
- Comedy, Sport
- John Badham
- 1977-07-13
"The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" works so hard to be entertaining - is so determined to be funny and colorful and poignant and nostalgic all at once - that it almost succeeds in outrunning itself.
Jan 14, 2014 · Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter (James Earl Jones...
- 5 min
- 18.3K
- Black Film History
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings. PG 1976 1h 50m Comedy. List. Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats...
- (20)
- John Badham
- PG
- Billy Dee Williams
In director John Badham's congenial comedy, baseballers Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) and Leon Carter (James Earl Jones) lead a group of fellow black players defecting from the Negro League...
Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around.
- 111 min
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