Babylon (1980)
Note: this print runs 48 minutes against a recorded 95 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Trevor Laird
Directed by Franco Rosso
Babylon is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso. Written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman, it is an incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set in Brixton, London. The film, anchored by Dennis Bovell’s propulsive score, is partly based on Bovell’s false imprisonment for running a Jamaican sound system, Sufferer’s Hi Fi, in the mid-1970s.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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Babylon dates from 1980, directed by Franco Rosso. On MOVIE REWIND it plays on the VHS ERA channel.
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