Post by london777 on Jun 2, 2019 1:23:10 GMT
Flame in the Streets (1961) dir: Roy Ward Baker, starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, and Brenda de Banzie. Sincere Brit effort to tackle the issue, although as you can see, the civic upheaval is rather small-scale compared to US events:
Sapphire (1959) dir: Basil Dearden. A pioneering and better movie. Racism comes to the fore during a murder investigation. Nigel Patrick is the humane detective. Michael Craig is his sidekick and a defect in the film as the stereotyped unthinking racist, but the stand-out work is by Yvonne Mitchell. Her final scene made me quite uneasy.
It is available on YouTube. Catch it while you can!
The Help (2011) dir: Tate Taylor
The Long Walk Home (1990) dir: Richard Pearce. Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg form a bond during the Montgomery bus boycott.
In the Heat of the Night (1967) dir: Norman Jewison. The dice are kinda loaded in this one, which made it cool for white liberals to cheer the black guy (Sidney Poitier) and laugh at the racist sheriff (Rod Steiger), but an excellent movie and a very influential one.
Loving (2016) dir: Jeff Nichols
Detroit (2017) dir: Kathryn Bigelow
Added these two DVDs to my collection recently but have yet to view them, so I leave others to comment.
Sapphire (1959) dir: Basil Dearden. A pioneering and better movie. Racism comes to the fore during a murder investigation. Nigel Patrick is the humane detective. Michael Craig is his sidekick and a defect in the film as the stereotyped unthinking racist, but the stand-out work is by Yvonne Mitchell. Her final scene made me quite uneasy.
It is available on YouTube. Catch it while you can!
The Help (2011) dir: Tate Taylor
The Long Walk Home (1990) dir: Richard Pearce. Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg form a bond during the Montgomery bus boycott.
In the Heat of the Night (1967) dir: Norman Jewison. The dice are kinda loaded in this one, which made it cool for white liberals to cheer the black guy (Sidney Poitier) and laugh at the racist sheriff (Rod Steiger), but an excellent movie and a very influential one.
Loving (2016) dir: Jeff Nichols
Detroit (2017) dir: Kathryn Bigelow
Added these two DVDs to my collection recently but have yet to view them, so I leave others to comment.