The Harlem Globetrotters
- Original title
- The Harlem Globetrotters
- Year
- 1951
- Running time
- 78 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Harlem Globetrotters
- Thomas Gomez
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Bill Walker
- Angela Clarke
- Peter M. Thompson
- Billy Brown
- Roscoe Cumberland
- William 'Pop' Gates
- Marques Haynes
- Louis 'Babe' Pressley
- Ermer Robinson
- Ted Strong
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- Music
- Cinematography
Philip Tannura (B&W)- Producer
Columbia Pictures. Distributor: Columbia Pictures- Genre
- Drama | Sports. Basketball
- Synopsis
- Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters." Saperstein want Billy to finish school first and get his degree but, despite the good advice, Billy quits college and joins the team. He becomes the team star, gets married although it is against the team regulations, and is injured. As a result, the team loses an important game and Billy is fired. He signs a big-money contract to play with another team in the following season. but when he hears that his old team needs him. he forgoes the big money and rejoins the "Globetrotters."
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