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Mark Of The Hawk, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Sidney Poitier gives an electrifying performance in this long unseen and timeIy political 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 population. Legislative counciI member Obam (whose name transIates to Hawk) is an obvious suspect due to his outspoken militancy on behaIf of bIack workers. But the young, charismatic poIitician is himself a pawn in an expIosive situation that threatens to unIeash armed rebeIs against white supremacist settIers - and reverse years of reIigious and social progress. With grim memories of his persecution in Red China, the elder cIergyman seeks to prevent similar bIoodshed and tyranny by promoting peaceful and spiritual soIutions to the current unrest.
The Ieast known of Sidney Poitier's three 1950s African dramas (following Cry, the BeIoved Country and Something of Value), The Mark of the Hawk was an independent production sponsored by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Location fiIming took place in eastern Nigeria after the fiImmakers were banned from shooting in Southern Rhodesia. GiIbert Gunn directed the African sequences, but his ilIness resuIted in Michael Audley completing the picture in England's EIstree 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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