A Man Called Adam (1966)

Directors

Leo Penn

Cast

Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong, Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson

The story

Adam Johnson is a talented African-American jazz cornetist plagued by ill health, racism, alcoholism and a short temper, as well as guilt over the deaths years before of his wife and child. The result is a caustic personality that wears on even those who care the most about him, such as his best friend Nelson and Vincent, a young White trumpeter whom Adam mentors. Arriving unexpectedly at his New York home drunk after leaving his jazz quintet, Adam finds prominent civil-rights activist Claudia Ferguson and her grandfather Willie, who is a well-known jazz trumpeter, in his apartment.

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