Country: USA
Year: 1964
Duration: 92'


Duff Anderson, a Negro railroad worker, meets Josie Dawson, a Baptist minister's daughter. They fall in love in spite of Anderson's unwillingness to accept responsibility and in spite of Josie's middleclass father's objections to Anderson. Anderson and Josie marry. And although Josie wants the child to join them, Anderson refuses. He takes a job in a sawmill but is fired because he will not defer to his bigoted white employers: he advises the other millhands to organize a union. His father-inlaw helps him get a job in a filling station, but vigilantes threaten to wreck the station unless he leaves. Frustrated, Anderson strikes out at his pregnant wife, claiming she does not know hat it is like to be a Negro because she has never had to live like one. Once more he visits his father. watches him die, and observes Lee's terrible loneliness. Finally, he takes his son and returns home to Josie, determined to raise his family in dignity and peace.

Biography

film director

Michael Roemer

Cast

& Credits

Director: Michael Roemer.
Screenplay: Michael Roemer, Robert Young.
Director of photography: Robert Young.
Editor: Luke Bennett.
Music: Mary Wells, The Gospel Stars, Martha and the Vandellas, The Miracles, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Littie Stevie Wonder, The Marvelettes, Wilbur King.
Sound: Robert Rubin, Albert Gramaglia.
Cast: Ivan Dixon (Duff Anderson), Abbey Lincoln (Josie Dawson), Gloria Foster (Lee), Julius Harris (Will Anderson), Martin Priest (autista), Leonard Parker (Frankie), Yaphet Kotto (Jocko), Stanley Greene (il reverendo Dawson), Helen Lounck (Effie Simms), Helene Arrindell (Doris).
Production company: Robert Young, Michael Roemer, Robert Rubin.
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