Diane Summerfield Movies
- 1987
- R
Sergeant J.J. Striker (Charles Napier) is a hard-drinking cop who tracks down a serial killer that can seemingly repel bullets in this routine crime drama made in 1985. Sommers (Robert Zdar) kills prostitutes and paints Chinese symbols on his victims. Rene (Michelle Reese) is the hooker who teems up with Striker in an attempt to nab the killer. Gary Crosby plays an unpopular cop caught with a transvestite prostitute, with a bevy of beauties led by Tally Chanel and Ola Ray who play the ill-fated victims. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Napier, Michelle Reese, (more)
For his follow-up to 1979's Academy Award-winning Norma Rae, director Martin Ritt re-teams with that film's star, Sally Field, for this gritty romantic road comedy. Reportedly Ritt's homage to Frank Capra's films of the 1930s, Back Roads stars Field as Amy Post, a no-nonsense prostitute in the deep South struggling with the fact that she gave up her only child for adoption. When Amy first encounters the recently unemployed Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones), she is anything but fond of the drifter. But after taking to the road together with dreams of California, the two societal misfits find themselves falling for each other. Ritt and Field would team together once again four years later in another romantic comedy set in the South, Murphy's Romance. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, (more)
- 1980
This romantic drama features a relationship between Sam (James H. Jacobs), a Jewish New York cabbie, and Corinne (Diane Sommerfield), an African-American mother with a young son, Davey (Malik Murray). After Davey hops into Sam's cab one day, he manages to bring Sam and his mother together. She is a bank clerk and handling her own life quite well but neither she nor Sam can deny the attraction that begins when they meet. Cultural and racial differences are handled with understanding as Corinne and Sam are accidentally involved in a drug scam that could get them into serious trouble. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James H. Jacobs, Earl Monroe, (more)
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
