Post by cynthiagreen on May 28, 2019 20:58:48 GMT
Racism in movies
PINKY 1949 - Jeanne Crain passing for white
DO THE RIGHT THING 1989 - random events collide causing a race riot
HAPPY GO LUCKY - Eddie Marsan's racist driving instructor
JUNGLE FEVER - reactions to a mixed race office affair
MANDINGO lurid period potboiler with lashings of slavery, sex and violence
THE DEFIANT ONES - racist prisoner escapes chained to black man(and budget remake with gender switch BLACK MAMA WHITE MAMA)
FOXY BROWN Pam Grier takes on the mob..."the darker the berry the sweeter the juice"
SLAVES - deservedly obscure drama with Dionne Warwick in rare film role
GUESS WHOS COMING TO DINNER - Poitier so squeaky clean/presentable that they'd have been pleased even if he was green, let alone black, said THE SUNDAY TIMES, going on "Someone should remake it with the prospective addition to the family as a dope pushing homosexual flashy pimp that the girl loves..then we'd see where liberal sensibilities really belonged"
HURRY SUNDOWN - Preminger's unjustly maligned deep South epic - PEYTON PLACE with a Civil Rights Agenda- strong cast and score. It ain't subtle but its a gripping view. A must for Fonda fans.
About that Sunday Times review of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner: I don't know who wrote it, but it reflects a fundamental and wrong-headed misunderstanding - or deliberate mis-statement - of so called "liberal sensibilities." A dope pusher? A criminal. A pimp? Another criminal. Why would that reviewer think those would challenge "liberal sensibilities?" We can forget about the homosexual angle entirely as a silly inclusion; what would the point be of the girl bringing home a gay man as a prospective husband?
That wrong-headedness is also illustrative of many conservative mindsets that equate crimes like drug dealing or pimping with innate human characteristics like skin color or sexual orientation, and tips their bigoted hands.
Hi
the Review was by Angela & Elkan Allen and dates from 1974 or so - their MOVIES ON TV guide - for what its worth they rated the film as "if you've nothing better to do" ie watchable. It was my first film guide and still one of my favourites - and I think one of the best written, even if the scope is not as wide as Halliwell or TIME OUT or Maltin, and it ignores foreign language and made for TV fayre. Did you ever see the Stanley Baxter TV spoof GUESS WHOS STAYING FOR AFTERS ? - where she brings home a white guy to the shock and consternation of her parents-- sadly not on youtube.