Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NIGHT, by Julian Mayfield (156 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), puts a ten-year-old Negro boy through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...
...this day, Mamma has hit it lucky playing the numbers game. When she sends Steely to collect her $27, she warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy man for whom he has done odd jobs offers a single dollar. In desperation Steely snatches a woman...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's black and white drama about a chain-gang escape, with Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's black and white drama about a Southern chain-gang escape, with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...