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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2021 1:47:27 GMT
Juano Hernandez as the sitting judge. TRIAL -1955 Ransom - as Ford's butler in RANSOM! (1956)
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 24, 2021 1:48:24 GMT
Actually that's Juano as Ford's butler in RANSOM!
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 24, 2021 1:56:42 GMT
Aha !
And he actually is sitting, too!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2021 2:07:24 GMT
Not exactly a "pushing back" moment, but Juano Hernandez stands "very TALL," and with his own voice, in Intruder in the Dust (1949) / Clarence Brown based on a William Faulkner novel.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2021 2:43:18 GMT
ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY a 1949 Clark Gable film with Caleb Peterson as a houseman in a gambling palace.
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 25, 2021 20:10:05 GMT
Kenneth Spencer played some good roles, life was cut short by a plane crash. Bataan (1943) is notable, the small squad that Robert Taylor commands is racially integrated which was pretty unique for the period. Spencer's character is in the Corps of Engineers.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 25, 2021 22:56:01 GMT
Kenneth Spencer played some good roles, life was cut short by a plane crash in 1964.. Bataan (1943) is notable, the small squad that Robert Taylor commands is racially integrated which was pretty unique for the period. Spencer's character is in the Corps of Engineers. Spencer: front row third from left (that is Desi Arnaz to the right of Spencer)
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Post by hi224 on Jan 26, 2021 11:12:42 GMT
A key moment in the history of African Americans in cinema was in IN THE HEAT IF THE NIGHT, when Larry Gates slaps Sidney Poitier and Poitier slaps him back. i am watching ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY a 1949 Clark Gable film with Caleb Peterson as a houseman in a gambling palace. His jobs are serving and cleaning, but he seems to be on equal terms with the other employees, the dealers, pit bosses and accountants. They all have a fierce loyalty to Gable. Peterson speaks in a natural Black accented voice rather than a step n fetch it comic dialect. The most impressive moment of push back comes when two villains insist on calling him George, a leftover from the days when White men called all train porters George, as though they did not have personal names . Peterson protests, at first calmly, then more firmly. When the two villains are overcome and thrown out of the club, Peterson yells “ Good Night , GEORGE “ after them. It’s a surprisingly natural performance , with the Black character, despite his subservient position, refusing to accept humiliating insults. i am wondering about other Pre 1967 moments when Black characters are shown pushing back at ill treatment, speaking in natural voices, having a life of their own away from the white characters. Just wanted to say I really enjoy your thread great discussions
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 28, 2021 3:21:17 GMT
Not certain if it fits the challenge completely, but here goes: THE OX-BOW INCIDENT: reluctant posse member 'Sparks' (Leigh Whipper) stands alone in the voting of whether to hang or not hang. Leigh Whipper is the first to stand on the side of law and order but six others join him, including Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan. Whipper tells of his brother's lynching in the South. And of course the leader of the hanging party is wearing a Confederate uniform. Whipper, by the by, had a law degree from Howard.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jan 28, 2021 5:42:49 GMT
William Wyler's one-of-a-kind final film, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, was made in 1970, and it is the first American film in which a black man killed a white man on-screen. At the end of the picture, Sonny Boy Mosby (Yaphet Kotto) gruesomely kills scummy, racist off-duty cop Stanley Bumpas (Arch Johnson), disguises it as an accident, hops on a train and rides off into the sunset.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Feb 6, 2021 21:11:23 GMT
" I'm no straggler..." James Edwards pushes back again, starring as Medic Corporal Thompson in the excellent Korean war drama The Steel Helmet (1951).Produced, Written & Directed by Samuel Fuller Fending off assumptions/accusations of desertion earlier on , Thompson is also targeted by a commie prisoner who attempts to subvert him... The Commie Prisoner:" I just don't understand you. You can't eat with them unless there's a war. Even then, it's difficult. Isn't that so?
Cpl. Thompson: That's right.
Commie Prisoner: You pay for a ticket, but you even have to sit in the back of a public bus. Isn't that so?
Cpl. Thompson: That's right. A hundred years ago, I couldn't even ride a bus. At least now I can sit in the back. Maybe in fifty years, sit in the middle. Someday even up front. There's some things you just can't rush, buster..."
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