04-04-2019, 07:36 PM
Just started watching this 30-year-old movie on Amazon Prime. Michael Rose (Black Uhuru), Rita Marley, Earl Chinna Smith and others in opening scene. Cedella Marley plays a witch!
[i][i]The Mighty Quinn[/i] was filmed at various locations throughout Jamaica, with the principal outdoor scenes shot in Port Antonio.[/i]
The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 thriller film starring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The screenplay by Hampton Fancher is based on A. H. Z. Carr's 1971 novel Finding Maubee. In the film, Washington plays Xavier Quinn, a police chief who tries to help his childhood friend Maubee (Townsend) after he becomes a murder suspect.[sup][1][/sup]
The film takes its name from the Bob Dylan song of the same name, a Reggae cover version of which appears on the soundtrack. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film an overwhelmingly positive review, calling it one of the best films of 1989
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097880/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097880/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
[i][i]The Mighty Quinn[/i] was filmed at various locations throughout Jamaica, with the principal outdoor scenes shot in Port Antonio.[/i]
The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 thriller film starring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The screenplay by Hampton Fancher is based on A. H. Z. Carr's 1971 novel Finding Maubee. In the film, Washington plays Xavier Quinn, a police chief who tries to help his childhood friend Maubee (Townsend) after he becomes a murder suspect.[sup][1][/sup]
The film takes its name from the Bob Dylan song of the same name, a Reggae cover version of which appears on the soundtrack. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film an overwhelmingly positive review, calling it one of the best films of 1989
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097880/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097880/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm