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The Monkey Hustle is a american film of genre Action directed by Arthur Marks released in USA on 24 december 1976 with Yaphet Kotto
The Monkey Hustle (1976)
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Add to a movie listThe Monkey Hustle (also written as The Monkey Hu$tle) is a 1976 American blaxploitation film written by Odie Hawkins and Charles Eric Johnson. It stars Yaphet Kotto as Chicago con-man and "hustler" Daddy Foxx and Kirk Calloway as his teenage apprentice. Co-stars include Thomas Carter, Donn C. Harper, Rudy Ray Moore, and Rosalind Cash.
The film taglines in advertising were:
"Meet Daddy Fox, Baby D. and Goldie. They gonna do the Monkey Hustle!"
"It ain't legal an it sure ain't safe...but it do seem worthwhile!"
Actors
Yaphet Kotto
(Daddy Foxx)
Rudy Ray Moore
(Goldie)
Thomas Carter
(Player)
Rosalind Cash
(Mama)
Randy Brooks
(Win)
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