Where the hell is Yaphet Kotto?
I've only seen this movie once years ago and can't remember ANY Black people being in it, let alone "Gee" from Homicide! If anyone's seen this recently, could you point out what scene he's in? Thanks.
shareEdric Connor plays the carriage driver who drives Dean Martin when he arrives into town (around 37 minutes from the beginning) and later on when he visits the boat (58 minutes). He is then hired as a majordomo when the boat is finished and can be seen several times during the evening (1 hour 36 minutes). He is eventually in the very last scene, holding a blonde kid in his arms (1 hour 55 minutes).
I have seen no other black actor in this movie. Timestamps are from the DVD version, which is lacking 9 whole minutes from the original movie (TV versions do have those 9 minutes, but I have no idea what they are).
Thanks, Sam. I'm gonna try and seek this one out to rent soon. I don't know about purchasing it yet. I do remember a famous actor gets shot at the end of it (I won't say who for spoiler purposes).
shareWhat the hell are you people talking about? There were tons of black actors in this movie - sure most of them were waiters and mamies, but it was a flick about antebellum Texas. I think it was pretty progressive that there was a Mexican and black guy as sidekicks - remember this was 1963 and no on in Hollywood was forcing you to put minorities in the cast at all!
shareThe very young Yaphet Kotto was all but unrecognizable to me, having mostly been used to seeing him as "G" in Homicide all those years later. This was not a bad role for him, he was impressive kicking ass in the fighting scenes.
share You realize it wasn't Yaphett Kotto, right? The poster before you said it, and looking at the cast listing you can see it's a different actor. Look for "King George."
"Congratulations, Major. It appears that at last you have found yourself a real war." Ben Tyreen
That wasn't Kotto. That was Fred G. Sanford. He had moved to Galveston from St. Louis before moving to Watts.
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