Amazing Grace (1974 film)

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name = Amazing Grace


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director = Stan Lathan
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writer = Matt Robinson
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starring = Moms Mabley
Slappy White
Rosiland Cash
Moses Gunn
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released = Start date|1974|8|30
runtime = 99 minutes
country = United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0071130

"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.

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