Spike Lee’s thesis film for his master’s degree at NYU went on to win a Student Academy Award. The new owner of a barbershop is frustrated in his attempt to run a legitimate, traditional business by a scarcity of customers and the incursions of a gangster who wants to use the shop as a front for a numbers racket.
Producer: Spike Lee. Director: Spike Lee. Screenwriter: Spike Lee. Cinematographer: Ernest Dickerson. Editor: Spike Lee. With: Monty Ross, Donna Bailey, Stuart Smith, Tommie Hicks, Horace Long. 16mm, b/w, 60 min.
