Space Is the Place
Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outer space with his crew, known as "the Arkestra", and decides to settle African Americans on this planet. The medium of transportation he chooses for this resettlement is music. He travels back in time and returns to the Chicago strip club where he used to play piano with the name "Sonny Ray" in 1943, where he confronts the Overseer (Ray Johnson), a pimp-overlord, and they agree on a game of cards for the fate of the Black race.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Sci Fi, Music |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Jim Newman |
| Directed By: | John Coney |
| Written By: | Joshua Smith, Sun Ra |
| Cast: | Marshall Allen, Clarence Brewer, Christopher Brooks, Danny Thompson, Ken Moshesh, La Shaa Stallings, John Gilmore, Tiny Parker, Sun Ra, Larry Northington, June Tyson, Raymond Johnson, Barbara Deloney, Sinthia Ayala, Eloe Omoe, Erika Leder, Jack Baker, Kwame Hadi, Sam Bankhead, Morgan Upton, Walter Burns, Danny Davis |
| In Theaters: | Nov 01, 1974 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 25 minutes |
| Production: | North American Star System |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
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