Black Joy

An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanan immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life of the Brixton ghetto
Black Joy (1977)
97 min - Comedy - 27 September 1986 (USA)
Released in 1977, directed by Anthony Simmons. The story of an immigrant country boy in Brixton, London, it has been described as the UK's only example of a "Blaxploitation" movie, a genre more familiar in the United States. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

The film is a lightly ironic, British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas heads the cast as a Guyanan youth who is under the delusion that life will be easier for him in London. No sooner does Thomas set foot in England than he gets tangled up in one disaster after another. The catalyst for most of Our Hero's travails is "assimilated" Caribbean Norman Beaton, who plays a streetwise con artist.

The film was adapted from Dark Days and Light Nights, a stage play by Jamal Ali who also wrote the screenplay.

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[emptypages1970]

"I specialise in collecting social welfare cheques". Thats hilarious !!

This trailer seems to be in better condition than the available dvd film print, which looks very ropey and dark. Maybe the original film print has been lost