> > I am interested in films which have been remade with black characters. > in roles originally cast with whites, for example BLACULA/DRACULA. > Richard Brooks's novel THE BRICK FOXHOLE, for example, became the > film CROSSFIRE, and the gay character became a Jew (and the story > about anti-semitism instead of homophobia). > > Can any of the netters think of similar cases dealing with African- > Americans -- i.e. in which a remake or retelling cast blacks > in roles which originally featured whites or some other ethnicity? > > Similarly, Can anyone remember the T.V. remake of the Defiant Ones with > Phyllisha Rashad, in which the male charachters are recast as females. > (while preserving the color differences) > > Erin Elder > Albion College > The Kid From Left Field with Gary Coleman and Robert Guillaime. There have also been several stage musicals redone with black casts: Hello Dolly! w/ Pearl Bailey, Guys and Dolls w/Guillaime, a Hot Mikado and a Swing Mikado (one of these for the Federal Theatre); also in recent years a black Glass Menagerie in DC and a Playboy of the Western World reset in the West Indies. . .