In 1974, Danny Myzchniki, a business associate of Frances Ford Coppolla, pitched a Time-travelling Blaxploitation movie called A Bitch in Time Saves Mine to various studios. While he went on record as believing it was, "a mind-blowing polygamous marriage of science fiction, gangster epic, medieval murder-mystery and martial arts," no studio would take a chance on it, despite Myzchniki having cast the main roles, and paid for filming several scenes out of his own pocket, including the climactic '5-Dimensional P-Funk concert', where the hero, 'Pimp-Daddy Chronio', played by Sylas Dawson, a local musician leads a band consisting of a 16th Century Shaolin monk on slap-bass, an Arthurian knight on drums, a 25th Century space explorer on lead guitar, and his "hos" Tick and Tock on brass in a "jam for the ages" against a "Robo-Demon from ancient Greece."
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| Sylas Dawson, playing "Pimp-Daddy Chronio", in one of the few completed scenes from A Bitch in Time Saves Mine. Photo provided by joelogon. |
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