The Mighty Quinn (1989) on Netflix
Xavier Quinn is chief of police on a Caribbean island. When a resort owner is found decapitated, the governor wants Maubee arrested. Maubee is a small-time thief and Quinn's oldest friend.
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Plot summary
Donald Pater, who owns a luxury resort hotel on a Caribbean island, is found dead in his hot tub. Xavier Quinn, the island's chief of police, takes the case. Governor Chalk and his fixer, Thomas Elgin, want the killing pinned on Maubee, a petty crook who has been Quinn's closest friend since childhood, and Quinn doubts that Maubee did it. At home, Quinn's marriage to Lola is strained, and he seldom gets time with his son. Maubee keeps slipping past the police. A witness tells Quinn that Maubee carried a rare ten thousand dollar bill, and Quinn questions Ubu Pearl, a local witch who is aunt to Maubee's girlfriend Isola.
Cast
- Carl Bradshawas Cocodick
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Mighty Quinn (1989)
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- The film was renamed The Mighty Quinn, after the Bob Dylan song, when a test audience mistook the title Finding Maubee and the credit "Robert Townsend as Maubee" to mean Townsend was the lead actor. Contractual obligations over his character name forced the change.
- In October 1971, producer Robert Rosenthal had Larry Cohen write an adaptation of A. H. Z. Carr's novel Finding Maubee, and actors Sammy Davis Jr. and Lou Gossett signed on for roles. That version of the project was shelved.
