What Movie Did Jimmy Smith Have a Dramatic Role In?

[sgcim]

I couldn't believe my fucking eyes tonight when I was watching a movie that had Jimmy Smith in a dramatic role.

There wasn't an organ in sight, and he even had the last line in the movie.

[CJ Shearn]

Really? what channel was it on?

[jazztrain]

From IMDB:

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Actor (3 credits)

1975 Street Girls
Jimmy

1954 The Whistler (TV Series)

- Kind Thought (1954)

1951-1952 Fireside Theatre (TV Series)

- Next to Crash (1952)

- The Broken Chord (1952)

- The Birds Are Walking (1951)

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[sgcim]

I knew someone would cheat and use the IMDB.

The movie was "Street Girls" (1975), (the other IMDB listings are TV shows where he probably played the organ).

This movie was so obscure, that it wasn't listed in either of the two volumes of the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film I own.

Jimmy plays a hip, jive talkin' strip club bartender named Jimmy.

He's usually dressed in a thick leather jacket with a big cowboy hat when he's on the street, but he wears typical bartender garb in the club.

The plot is similar to the George C. Scott movie, "Hardcore", where a daddy is looking for his wayward little girl.

Although he has a tough exterior, 'Jimmy' is a strip club bartender with a 'heart of gold', as he rescues the father getting the shit beat out of him by a pimp.

There's a great scene of 'Jimmy' playing pool with some of the 'brothers'. He's constantly smoking a cigarette, blowing the smoke out of his nose.

'Jimmy' is pretty much the only sympathetic character in the flick, as all the white characters are shown as a bunch of stoners, junkies, pimps, rednecks and stripper/'hoes'.

Jimmy is constantly shown shaking his head smiling, as whitey keeps making fools out of themselves.

As whitey continues to ruin the lives of everyone they come in contact with, Jimmy gets the last line of the movie, shaking his head, and muttering, "Crackers..."

The movie was co-written by Barry Levinson, a fact that he probably doesn't include in his filmography.

[medjuck]

It's possible that the Jimmy Smith in the tv shows in the early '50s was a different actor.

[Rooster_Ties]

The whole movie appears to be on YouTube, just search on "Street Girls 1975". (On my phone, or I'd provide a link.)

[JSngry]

JOS also appears, uncredited, in one episode of the original Bill Cosby Show as a janitor mopping up the gym floor after a game. Cosby's talking to somebody on the way out, says, "Hey, Jim" in passing, JOS returns the hey, and that's it. But there he is.

This must be why he moved to L.A., to get them good roles.

This is not Jimmy Smits, correct?

[catesta]

This is not Jimmy Smits, correct?

Órale!!

[sgcim]

This is not Jimmy Smits, correct?

Órale!!

The music is by Terry Smith. I wonder if he's related?

Muddy Waters is also played when the young women do their act;.