See China and Die (released in Europe as Hearsay) is a 1981 television film written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen.
Premise
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China. She acts as an amateur sleuth to solve the murder of her employer.[1]
Cast
- Esther Rolle as Momma Sykes[2]
- Kene Holliday as Sgt. Alvin Sykes
- Frank Converse as Tom Hackman
- Paul Dooley as Ames Prescott
- Andrew Duggan as Edwin Forbes
- Laurence Luckinbill as Dr. Glickman
- Jean Marsh as Sally Hackman
- Fritz Weaver as Poston
- Jane Hitchcock as Ruth
- Claude Brooks as Jessie Sykes
- William Walker II as Andy Sykes
- Miguel Pinero as Gonzalez
- James Dukas as Transplant[3]
Production
The film was originally produced as a pilot for a mystery/crime series starring Esther Rolle called Momma the Detective, but the show never materialized.[4]
References
- ^ Roberts, Jerry (5 June 2009). Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810863781 – via Google Books.
- ^ McCann, Bob (27 October 2018). Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786437900 – via Google Books.
- ^ III, Harris M. Lentz (17 April 2009). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2008: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN 9780786453849 – via Google Books.
- ^ Williams, Tony (18 April 2016). Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, rev. ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476618197 – via Google Books.
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