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Oct 14, 2015voisjoe1_0 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Normally I would give this 1956 film 3.5 stars, but I’ve decided to give it 4.5 stars for the courage of the film-makers to even produce this film. During this period, American film-makers connected with anything considered left-wing had their careers destroyed by Congressional committees like HUAC. The Cannes Film Festival awarded the film for the first time ever the Chevalier de la Barre Prize for promoting “the cause of freedom of expression and tolerance.” It would be just another three years when Hollywood would allow a film to portray an African-American as equal to Whites and to allow the smidgen of the possibility of true romantic interracial love in the 1959 film “The World, the Flesh and the Devil.”