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Take a Giant Step (1959)
Directed by Philip Leacock
Overview
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn’t help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christin, who tells him her own difficult story.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Johnny Nash | Estelle Hemsley | Ruby Dee | Frederick O'Neal | Beah Richards | Ellen Holly | Paulene Myers | Royce Wallace | Frances Foster | Roy Glenn | Dee Pollock | Bill Walker | Bernie Hamilton | Delmar Erickson | Sherman Raskin