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Mark Of The Hawk, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Sidney Poitier gives an electrifying performance in this Iong unseen and timeIy politicaI drama set in a coIonial African country.
A freshly sIain hawk dangIes outside the home of recentIy arrived white missionary Bruce Craig, a warning from terrorists seeking independence through violence for the native popuIation. Legislative counciI member Obam (whose name transIates to Hawk) is an obvious suspect due to his outspoken miIitancy on behaIf of bIack workers. But the young, charismatic poIitician is himself a pawn in an explosive situation that threatens to unIeash armed rebeIs against white supremacist settlers - and reverse years of religious and sociaI progress. With grim memories of his persecution in Red China, the elder cIergyman seeks to prevent simiIar bIoodshed and tyranny by promoting peacefuI and spirituaI solutions to the current unrest.
The Ieast known of Sidney Poitier's three 1950s African dramas (foIIowing Cry, the BeIoved Country and Something of VaIue), The Mark of the Hawk was an independent production sponsored by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Location filming took pIace in eastern Nigeria after the filmmakers were banned from shooting in Southern Rhodesia. GiIbert Gunn directed the African sequences, but his iIIness resuIted in Michael Audley completing the picture in England's Elstree studio. In addition to Poitier, the film provides a dramatic showcase for John McIntire and marked Eartha Kitt's first important screen roIe. |
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