This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. Read More »
Tag Archives: Ruby Dee
Take a Giant Step (1959) Philip Leacock, Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood Read More »
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 »