To All My Friends On Shore (1972) | Bill Cosby Gloria Foster Dennis Hines 

I remember this as a child. Loved Gloria Foster. A dynamic actress before succumbing to cancer.This the era when Black men walked tall and strong and protected family and community. None of this stuff with men wanting to dress like Big Mama and aunties! Late 80s men started leaving their families as plants in the cities closed and crack cocaine became an alternative to hiring honest money. Lil boys left with no role model but Mama, grandmom and key females in their lives. Now they confused, preferring to be she-male and lil girls growing up without father figures being used and abused and becoming strippers. Even if this was a poor family that husband and wife were ride or die. Listen to their dialog in this movie. He addresses alternative to being a hard worker to being a hustler and getting locked up and "leaving you unattended." This is the love I grew up seeing. Men protecting family and being providers. Bill was handsome

This movie was so good I can't stop thinking about it a day later. That portrayal of a black family was so beautiful, so profound and so real that it nourished my soul. I saw my own father in Blue. I never even knew about this movie, and it has hit me so hard that I'm still reeling from it. It really shined a light on just how much today's TV shows and movies are pure trash and poison. I don't know how any black person could watch Love and Hip Hop or Empire or think about Cardi B or Offset after seeing this. I saw 1,000 times the dignity and honor in that family's struggle and love than in Future buying his 6 year old a Rolex and 10 Lambos.

Wow I didn't know that Mr. Cosby did a film with the legendary Gloria Foster. This film must've been buried under the archives. Thanks Mike and Charles for unburying this.

Bill Played The Hell out of this Role! Top Bill'N

I love this movie and Dr. Bill Cosby!!

I know all too well the pain of losing a child to this horrible disease! My son lost his fight against it 3 yrs ago. I'll never recover from my loss😢! Thanks for the upload 🙏🏽

hey, Hey, HEY!! Thanks for the video today!!!

I LOVE BILL COSBY, THIS MOVIE WAS FILMED THE YEAR I WAS BORN 46 YEARS AGO. THIS IS A GOOD MOVIE.

Never saw this Bill Cosby movie. BLACK LOVE IS FOREVER!!! NOTHING LIKE IT...💗💗💗

Thanks for the upload...

Thank you

A very solid film with a great plot...the cast is on point too. Gloria Foster looks extra fine with that banging afro!

I remember renting this movie a long time ago. Way before blockbuster😊 A real tear jerker. 😢

♥️🙏🏾 Bill Cosby 🙏🏾♥️ 🙇🏾 I will always love and respect him the original king of comedy ❤️

I love 💘You Mr. Cosby !!!

Yet another relatively unknown gem. Thanks for all you do.

Such a great movie... My eye's well up everytime I watch it.... Bill in his 30's... An epic family film.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE WATCHED IT MANY TIMES BEFORE!!

Please keep them Cosby classics coming 👍

Great movie. Thank you. I'm still a fan of Cosby.

Beautiful film. Beautiful last line.

Let Bill Cosby go

I always thought Gloria Foster was so beautiful. She was married to Clarence Williams, III and she played the part of the Oracle in the Matrix.

I never seen this one with Bill Cosby @reelblack thanks for my popcorn night 😊📽️🍿

Bill Cosby also had Beautiful Gloria Foster appear on his television show. I have ALWAYS LOVED this movie!🥰👏❤

Legendary

Good piece of art right here.

I love watching quality Black films! We need more of these!

I enjoyed watching this film. It's good to see a Black family on the screen that isn't dysfunctional.

This movie is great and most don’t even know it exists.

A great movie, good storyline. It was a pleasure watching this film!

trivia: the lady who plays the wife is the original Oracle from the first and second Matrix

This movie had me about to ugly cry😭

Best print I've seen of this film.

Although I was old enough to have remembered this film I never saw it. I bet it was not shown much because it shows a black man as and active father, husband and provider, something the whitestream media doesn’t want to present as a side of our society that has ALWAYS existed!!!

Beautiful film. Excellent acting from all 3 main characters. Great storyline.

The same media that builds "one" up destroys them too many times with the weapons given to them, wisdom and knowledge arrives with time

This was definitely a great flashback of the 70’s Black family life people definitely didn’t show the power couple struggles with some positive in the house husband didn’t drink just found more useful way to make money these are facts

Wow, they don't show this on tv anymore. I haven't seen this since the early '70s. Brings back good memories of growing up. Thanks for posting.

Great film thanks

Cosby and the Oracle!!!!

Our Afro picks kept our fro's pick out, hair ornament and was a weapon for self defense also! Remember the many styles they came in. One up side the head! Have not heard that in a long time.

Black Cinema from the '70's is the best! *Uptown Saturday Night, Let's Do It Again, Which Way Is Up, Car Wash, Claudine, Shaft, The Mack, Lady Sings The Blues, Mahogany, The Wiz, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Three The Hard Way, Blacula, The Call Me Mister Tibbs, Cornbread Earl and Me, Dolemite,* just to name a few.

Wow what a good movie. Im loving all these blk movies. I never knew there were do many.

This was a good movie. Never heard or seen this movie. Thanks.

An emotional movie , good performances. Dr Bill Cosby did the music also. Beautiful Gloria Foster played the mother . Remember This from the 70s.

Beautiful cosby and foster marvelous

Cosby and Foster did the film Man and Boy together also.

Lil man said dreams are for sleeping real quick 🤦‍♂️🤣

B1 ✊🏾 Loved this throwback of my childhood 😊

So many thanks for finding and sharing this, I've never heard of it, but I'm very interested to see it.

NICE

Great movie. This is the first time that I didn't have any problems hearing the movie.The volume on this one was explosive to my ears. 😂😂😂

That doctor looks like Cornel West

NEVER saw this. Thanks REELBLACK. ✌

Gloria Foster starred in Nothing But A Man. One of my favorites. Would love to see that on here.

That was a good movie. The son was a good actor, very believable, not gimmicky.

😲Wow! A black man saying to his black wife "No,that's my job."

Good movie but knowing what we know now sickle cell doesn’t have to be a death sentence. I’m still a Bill fan too, who cares what other people think.

This RU-vid channel needs some type of NAACP award or something...takes my breath away the things I've learned about Black cinema/history on this channel....80 percent of the content I've never heard of before....what used to be and what could've of been... Bill showed black family's in a beautiful light.. they wanted to get rid of that image and bring in mess like love and hip hop..

Such a sad movie

Good film love it

Thank you for uploading this film . It was deleted a few years back .

SHALOM SEE HOW HE CAME IN AND WASHED HIS HANDS, !!!!!

Another favorite from my childhood. Thanks Reelblack!

Nice movie

👑

Excellent

this movie was film in my hometown in norwalk ct got chance to talk to him on my way walking to work in the movie you can see two projects washington village and roodner ct plus notwalk hospital

The Oracle

Beautiful movie...

I like this movie.. realistic

I didn’t know about this movie. Thank you I enjoyed it

I miss Bill.

When u stoo making money for them time to try an take it.back

Omg...I remember watching this years ago. Thanks for posting it! MEMORIES

OMG! This one was Key! Same as the flick with Lee Christmas!!! "Smoke!!! I thought we had us one here!!!"

Wow,new to me,but I will check it out as soon as I get home.

a rather slow movie but such good family values. I was kind of teary eyed at the end love the last scene

Wahoo 1971?

I grew up in this housing project where they shot this movie in south norwalk Connecticut they just tour the project down a year ago

Free Bill Cosby

Serena was played by Gloria foster her husband was Clarence Williams 111 best known as Lincoln aka Linc hayes on mod squad way back then both of them was good friends with Bill Cosby and Bill Cosby discovered Clarence Williams 111 make him got the part as linc hayes on mod squad send to him Aaron spelling and Danny Thomas office the rest is history a few days after this made for tv movie was made Gloria foster and Bill Cosby will play husband and wife in a western movie called man and boy and George spell played they son its one of Bill Cosby first movie he did and be starring in movies for many years to come

Another great life lesson courtesy of Dr Huxtable!

1:09:30

You know he's in prison for absolutely nothing, right? I mean he has literally committed no crime. It is purely political. You can't have that much wealth and influence and be off the script, its that simple, and he was off script, therefore an outsider with too much money and influence, and he was taken out. Our elder statesman and father, who has funded black causes and business ventures to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, has been thrown in prison, in his 80s. Yet the Epstein club skated (and skates). They have brutalized proud, honorable, beloved Dr. Huxtable in his golden years. Lennon. MLK. JFK. The good guys always fare the same in this place. For this reason, for me, there can be nothing within this entity ever to vote for. Ever.

How old was Cosby then?

Well, Bill Cosby was solid, of course, and I always enjoy Gloria, but the real star of the show has to be young Foster Dennis Hines.

Bill Cosby is the man and am not bothered about the bullshit that they accusing him of. Bill is still funny and inspiring too. Although the late great comic legends of Richard Pryor and Dick Gregory are my heroes Bill Cosby is also a great comic legend.

ReelBlack Producers, I've been trying to think of the name of this movie that came out in the seventies I think, It was about a Brothah that played a respectable husband and father living in an upscale neighborhood, would leave for work and become a pimp and pusher, with his family and neighbors none the wiser. He was seen by a neighbor lady by accident, whom wasn't sure it was him!!! Don't remember who played in it, hope you guys can figure it out Thank you, so very much!!

Bill Cosby in jail ? i could not believe it......

I really wanted to put my personal feelings aside and watch this movie. I just couldn't.

JUST POPPIN SHIT!!! GIMME SOME GREGORY HINES TOO!!! OL REEL BLACK DUNKIN THE HEINZ!!! WITH SIDE OF THAT FUCKA THAT A1 SAUCE SHIT!!! 😁😁😁✊✊✊ YEAH PIMP!!! SPIT!!! DAT REEL BLACK!!! AND JUST WATCH!!! HOW I !!! SMASHED!!! DAT LIKE BUTTON!!! YA FOLLOW ME? ✊✊✊ IF NOT YOU STUIPID!!! AND!!! A FOOL!!! NA NA NA!!! LIKE!!! HA HA HA!!! SHAWTY LO!!! NO PUN!!! WIT PUN!!! EBONICS NIGGA!!! OZZIE AND A RUBY!!! ✊✊✊ THEY CALL ME D!!! SAME NAME!!! ON FB!!! YEAH!!! 😁😁😁

No life jacket on the boat .. I’m no parasite government demanding you put one on... when we were free. Free to come and go as we please with out government interference...🇺🇸❤️ freedom.. keep the fight alive let’s never surrender to tyranny.🇺🇸

Gloria Foster should have played Billie Holiday instead of Diana Ross in 'Lady sings the blues'.

The vagabond drain excitingly suggest because show definitely appreciate towards a thick atm. damp, hanging pear

Shir b. just to confirm...I said 'I thought the movie was GARBAGE' this is MY OPINION.

Pill Cosby - Inmate Number NN7687

I bought this movie yrs ago from the walmart $500 bin....Its garbage to me, might have to watch again maybe i missed sum.

Bill has been the GOAT