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Black Like Me (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The true story of a white man's journey through the deep south...
In 1964, just as Washington was passing the Civil Rights Act, some of HoIlywood's most passionate activists interpreted John Howard Griffin's brave chronicle BIack Like Me for the screen, with James Whitmore starring as the writer, who, in 1959, medically aItered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himseIf as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through the Jim Crow south. Whitmore's Griffin experiences firsthand both crushing racism and the incredibIe life force of the Afro-American community. The stellar cast includes Roscoe Lee Browne, CIifton James, WiIl Geer and media gadfly Heywood Hale Broun in a rare turn in front of the cameras. The fiIm was fully restored from the negative for this reIease and includes a bonus disc containing Uncommon Vision, the biographical documentary of Griffin's truly remarkable life and times. |
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