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Take a Giant Step

12/01/1959

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1hr 40min

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Drama

From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!

STORY

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Johnny Nash
  • Estelle Hemsley
  • Ruby Dee
  • Frederick O'Neal
  • Beah Richards

    Director

  • Philip Leacock

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Johnny Nash

Spencer Scott

Estelle Hemsley

Grandmother Martin

Ruby Dee

Christine

Frederick O'Neal

Lem Scott

Beah Richards

May Scott

Ellen Holly

The Girl in the Bar

Paulene Myers

Violet

Royce Wallace

Rose Thompson

Frances Foster

Poppy

Roy Glenn

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