A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood Read More »
Tag Archives: Ruby Dee
Gone Are the Days! (1963) Nicholas Webster, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Godfrey Cambridge
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. Read More »
Buck and the Preacher (1972) Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West. Read More »
UpTight (1968) Jules Dassin, Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera
Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford’s 1935 film, The Informer. Read More »
King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee
Follows Martin Luther King’s life and decades long civil rights activism. Read More »
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. Read More »