Director: Philip Leacock
Writer(s): Louis S. Peterson, Julius J. Epstein
Starring: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee, Frederick O’Neal, Ellen Holly, Paulene Myers, Beah Richards, Royce Wallace, Frances Foster, Del Erickson, Dee Pollock, Frank Killmond, Joe Sonessa, Sherman Raskin, Bill Walker, Lester Dorr, Roy Glenn, Bernie Hamilton, Smoki Whitfield
Synopsis: A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys’ room. Spence’s crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father’s attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.’s Civil Rights Era.
Release Date: December 1, 1959 (USA) | Length: 100 min | Genre: Drama | Certificate: Approved
Note: Based on the play by Louis S. Peterson.