AdWatch: Colt 45 | Billy Dee Williams Talks About Colt 45

Billy Dee Williams discusses your need to always have Colt 45 in this 1988 ad for the malt liquor.

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ADVERTISER: Colt 45

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FIRST AIRED: 1986

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