Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.

Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.

As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two mischief-making devil-bats take human form in order to break up the party.

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.