Amazing Grace (1974)
Who's Comin' to Put an End to Dirty Tricks, Crooked Politicians and Lyin' Mayors! Who? America's Most Glamorous, Sexiest Female Superstar!
Starring Slappy White, Moms Mabley, Stepin Fetchit
Directed by Stan Lathan
Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts. Mabley appeared in the film, along with veteran actors Butterfly McQueen and Stepin Fetchit, only a year before her death at the age of 81. The film does not deal with the popular Christian hymn (with words by John Newton) but is a play on Mabley's character, who happens to be named Grace. It has been released on home video.
Runtime: 99 min.
Rating: 7.5
DVD
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Comedy
Cast
Forthwith Wilson
Grace
Cousin Lincoln
Annenberg
William
Welton J Waters
Creola Waters
Clarine
Blaney
Mayer Scott
Blaney