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One Potato, Two Potato

  • 1964
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
904
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One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
Drama

In his wanderlust, Joe Cullen moves from the US to South America to work in a mining camp, he leaving behind his wife Julie and their infant daughter, Ellen Mary. After Joe stops writing and... Read allIn his wanderlust, Joe Cullen moves from the US to South America to work in a mining camp, he leaving behind his wife Julie and their infant daughter, Ellen Mary. After Joe stops writing and sending money, Julie, not expecting Joe ever to return to her in he being dissatisfied wi... Read allIn his wanderlust, Joe Cullen moves from the US to South America to work in a mining camp, he leaving behind his wife Julie and their infant daughter, Ellen Mary. After Joe stops writing and sending money, Julie, not expecting Joe ever to return to her in he being dissatisfied with married life, files for divorce, and moves with Ellen Mary to the town of Howard to sta... Read all

  • Director
    • Larry Peerce
  • Writers
    • Raphael Hayes
    • Orville H. Hampton
  • Stars
    • Barbara Barrie
    • Bernie Hamilton
    • Richard Mulligan
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    904
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Larry Peerce
    • Writers
      • Raphael Hayes
      • Orville H. Hampton
    • Stars
      • Barbara Barrie
      • Bernie Hamilton
      • Richard Mulligan
    • 26User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Barbara Barrie
    Barbara Barrie
    • Julie Cullen Richards
    Bernie Hamilton
    Bernie Hamilton
    • Frank Richards
    Richard Mulligan
    Richard Mulligan
    • Joe Cullen
    Harry Bellaver
    Harry Bellaver
    • Judge Warren Powell
    Martha L. Mericka
    Martha L. Mericka
    • Ellen Mary
    • (as Marti Mericka)
    Robert Earl Jones
    Robert Earl Jones
    • William Richards
    Vinnette Carroll
    • Martha Richards
    • (as Vinette Carroll)
    Anthony Spinelli
    • Johnny Hruska
    • (as Sam Weston)
    Faith Burwell
    • Ann Hruska
    Jack Stamberger
    Jack Stamberger
    • Minister
    Michael Shane
    • Jordan Hollis
    Kenny Bass
    Kenny Bass
    • Orchestra Leader
    • (uncredited)
    Joel Ehrlich
    Joel Ehrlich
    • Bart
    • (uncredited)
    Dick Flaisman
    • Saxophone Player
    • (uncredited)
    Doris Helsel
    • Minister's Wife
    • (uncredited)
    Paul S. Orgill
    • Lawyer
    • (uncredited)
    Bea Pestotnik
    • Wedding Guest
    • (uncredited)
    John Pestotnik
    • Wedding Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Larry Peerce
    • Writers
      • Raphael Hayes
      • Orville H. Hampton
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      Intermarriage between African-Americans and Caucasians was illegal in 16 states until the US Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia was handed down on June 12, 1967. The court unanimously ruled that anti-miscegenation marriage laws were unconstitutional. In his opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man, fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State." Interestingly, many anti-miscegenation marriage laws were enacted in the wake of African-American heavyweight champion Jack Johnson's marriages to two Caucasian women, as pointed out in Ken Burns' documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004). Johnson married his white mistress Etta Duryea in late 1910 or early 1911, then married another white woman, Lucille Cameron, soon after his first wife's September 1911 suicide. The two marriages outraged white America, and Johnson and Cameron fled America for Canada and then Europe under threat of lynching. Their relationship was fictionalized in the stage play, and subsequent movie, The Great White Hope (1970), for which the Caucasian playwright Howard Sackler won the Pulitzer Prize. The 1913 Massachusetts anti-miscegenation marriage law, which did not recognize any marriage made in a state forbidding the marriage of different classifications of people (the law left unspoken the racial issue of black and white; in Virginia, blacks were allowed to marry other, non-white "races"), was considered inoperative after Loving v. Virginia until in 2005, then-governor Mitt Romney used it as the basis to deny out-of-state couples the right to wed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after the Bay State's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.
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      Featured in Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)

    User reviews26

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    9/10
    Daring love story for that time -- or any time since
    This is a story about a black and white couple who fell in love despite their efforts not to cross the color line. I saw the movie in a neighborhood Atlanta cinema and became worried about the audience's reaction both during the movie and as the people left. It was a daring subject to be presented in an angry location at a smoldering year. The audience was absolutely mute ... except for one guy that made an unwise crack to his date as we were leaving. She turned on him, tears in her eyes.

    This movie should be on VHS or DVD but I wouldn't be surprised if it's lost.
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    4
    • abcowboy
    • Apr 23, 2005

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    • Release date
      • August 10, 1964 (Denmark)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Jedan krompir, dva krompira
    • Filming locations
      • Painesville, Ohio, USA(".............where this picture was shot in its entirety, our thanks.")
    • Production company
      • Bawalco Picture Company
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    • Budget
      • $340,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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