"Five on the Black Hand Side" (1973) is a blaxploitation comedy that was less stereotypical in comparison to other films from the genre up to 1973. Starring a versatile cast of Leonard Jackson, Clarice Taylor, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin, Dick Anthony Williams, Virginia Capers, Sonny Jim Gaines, Ja'net DuBois, Philomena Nowlin, and Bonnie Banfield. Fed up with patriarch Mr. John Henry Brooks Jr.’s (Leonard Jackson) tyrannical rule, Mrs. Brooks (Clarice Taylor) and the Brooks children — Booker