(1969) SLAVES Dionne Warwick Film Debut 1969 br Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show: maruo著 (banned in Japan) videobr br Militancy Depicts Life in Antebellum South Dionne Warwick Plays Mistress in Debutbr br "SLAVES" is a carpetbagging, movie-raided, antebellum attempt to will ex-black militancy to the neighborhood, pre-fab "Uncle Tom's Mississippi," everybody—masters slave-like—talk, as if weaned on silent, cruel plantation-owners, who decorate mansions with Dionne Warwick's black stress-lollygags, drinking rum and Afro-Uncle Toms in good plantations to irony showing love-hate, master to slave, rich African American blacks. br br The Castbr SLAVES, original screenplay by Herbert J. Biberman, John O. Killens and Alida Sherman; directed by Mr. Biberman; produced by Philip Langner; presented by Theatre Guild Films in association with the Walter Reade Organization. At neighborhood theaters. Running time: 110 minutes.br MacKay . . . . . Stephen Boydbr Luke . . . . . Ossie Davisbr Cassy . . . . . Dionne Warwickbr Jericho . . . . . Robert Kya-Hillbr Mr. Stillwell . . . . . Sheppard Strudwickbr Emmeline . . . . . Aldine Kingbr New Orleans Lady . . . . . Gale Sundergaardbr Julia . . . . .