Black Like Me

Name: Black Like Me
Genre: Drama
Released: 1964-05-20
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne

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1h 45m

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6.7/10

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Sorrell Booke, Lenka Peterson, and James Whitmore in Black Like Me (1964)

Drama

Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated... Read allBased on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

720

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Director
- Carl Lerner
Writers
- John Howard Griffin(book)
- Carl Lerner(screenplay)
- Gerda Lerner(screenplay)
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- 1 win

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Sorrell Booke and James Whitmore in Black Like Me (1964)

Al Freeman Jr. and James Whitmore in Black Like Me (1964)

Dan Priest and James Whitmore in Black Like Me (1964)

Roscoe Lee Browne and James Whitmore in Black Like Me (1964)

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Trivia
Final film of Ralph Dunn.

Goofs
When Horton, after meeting the PhD student, opens his wallet to pay in the diner, something falls out of it near the counter. No one notices or refers to it.

Connections
Featured in Classified X (1998)

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This is the sleepy South as it really was. The pace is deliberate but necessarily so. The direction and acting is gritty and real.

The anger was real. The prejudice was real. The hate was real. The fear was real. The pain was real. It really happened this way.

This movie shows us all that. We walk in the shoes of a white man who looks like a black man...but we will never know. We can only imagine like James Whitmore's character, John Horton. We can only imagine what a man or woman had to endure in the unilluminated history of the United States.

Seeing this, we know, though we have come quite some distance, that we have still a long way to go before the reality is but a memory.

I salute all of those involved in this film and Mr. John Howard Griffin who endured it all and let us know the cruelty of man and helped us open our eyes.

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