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Original title

Take a Giant Step

Year

1959

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Philip Leacock

Screenwriter

Julius J. Epstein. Play: Louis S. Peterson

Cast

Music

Jack Marshall

Cinematography

Arthur E. Arling (B&W)

Producer

Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions. Distributor: United Artists

Genre

Drama | Racism

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.

Awards: 1959: Golden Globes: 2 nominations, including Best Supp. Actress (Hemsley)

1960: Locarno Film Festival: Award for the Intensity of the Interpretation (Nash)

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Take a Giant Step

1959

Philip Leacock