Chameleon Street
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents classic film and contemporary cinema in the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater.
Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.
The sole directorial feature from Black writer-director-actor Wendell B. Harris Jr., Chameleon Street portrays the true story of Detroit-based con man William Douglas Street Jr., who posed as an Ivy League student, magazine reporter, gynecological surgeon, and corporate lawyer in a legendary stint of socioeconomic ladder-climbing. The Archive presents the Los Angeles theatrical premiere of this nearly lost masterstroke of independent Black cinema, which has been newly restored from the original camera negative by Arbelos Films. (1990, dir. Wendell B. Harris Jr., DCP from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, color, 94 min.)