I actually seen this movie a million times. But I haven't seen it in a few years. It was OK. I thought if I saw it again I might find something else about it that I missed since I am older.
The reason I was not crazy bout it was because it tried to hard to make the black character played by Belafonte almost angelic, not man, a human who craves closeness. Who was he holding back for? He played the Sidney Poitier role, Sid must of been busy. The movie wants to pride itself in being innovated but it cops out. Belafonte has played very controversial roles before and since that movie so it was not like he never broke the taboo roles in movies. People want to say this was a first. But a few years earlier Belafante played the love interest of Joan Fontaine in a movie along with Dorothy Dandridge who was married to white man and James Mason who was passing. Was it because this was a American movie it did not take that one step, that never happens? Inger Stevens was very good because she is a real person who perhaps in her life before she never would of talked to a black man but sees reality as it is, No one is here any more so why not go for it. We do like each other.
But I like the Mel Ferrer part because I do believe he was the role the directors took chance with and was more truthful. We see even though his character that even though Stevens craves contact, she will not take it from a person she doesn't really like. Since we know that and Belafonte and she knows that what is they problem? The Ferrer character certainly knows that. I't is a interesting movie. But no one should take it as being anything but entertainment..
The reason I was not crazy bout it was because it tried to hard to make the black character played by Belafonte almost angelic, not man, a human who craves closeness. Who was he holding back for? He played the Sidney Poitier role, Sid must of been busy. The movie wants to pride itself in being innovated but it cops out. Belafonte has played very controversial roles before and since that movie so it was not like he never broke the taboo roles in movies. People want to say this was a first. But a few years earlier Belafante played the love interest of Joan Fontaine in a movie along with Dorothy Dandridge who was married to white man and James Mason who was passing. Was it because this was a American movie it did not take that one step, that never happens? Inger Stevens was very good because she is a real person who perhaps in her life before she never would of talked to a black man but sees reality as it is, No one is here any more so why not go for it. We do like each other.
But I like the Mel Ferrer part because I do believe he was the role the directors took chance with and was more truthful. We see even though his character that even though Stevens craves contact, she will not take it from a person she doesn't really like. Since we know that and Belafonte and she knows that what is they problem? The Ferrer character certainly knows that. I't is a interesting movie. But no one should take it as being anything but entertainment..