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The Mighty Quinn
Carl Schenkel
A highly enjoyable sleeper. The plot of
The Mighty Quinn is a variation on one of those ‘30s studio pictures about two boyhood friends who grow up on different sides of the law—but it’s 1989, and things are a bit different. Denzel Washington, smooth as Jamaican rum, plays the police chief of a Caribbean island, a place where crime isn’t exactly a pressing concern. Thus the chief is put out when the clues in a murder case point to his old buddy, a dreadlocked ne’er-do-well played by a mischievous Robert Townsend. Director Carl Schenkel is much more…
