Word: poitier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by SIDNEY POITIER...
...first hint that something rather different is going to be delivered here comes at the very opening, when Sidney Poitier, serving as both star and director, gets off his factory job and steps into some dog dirt. Poitier is one of the more fastidious of movie stars, so perhaps he saw this as his symbolic initiation into the realms of folk comedy. He did not, in any case, summon a double for the scene, but carried straight through with it himself, sparing no sacrifice to get into a little funk...
...Patch of Blue [1965]. A schmaltzy Sidney Poitier movie about love being stronger than race or physical affliction. Ch. 7, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours, 10 minutes...
...nostalgic about the old days in Toro, his former kingdom in western Uganda. He has settled in neighboring Kenya and started a career in advertising. But the rigors of monarchy hardly prepared him for a humdrum existence; so when he was offered the role of stand-in for Sidney Poitier in a movie, The Wilby Conspiracy, filmed in Nairobi and Nanyuki, he took a leave of absence from his company. Patrick emphasized it was only a lark. "I jumped at the offer as something new and exciting," he said in a break between the fights that document the story...
...WARM DECEMBER is framed in spun sugar. Sidney Poitier, who also directed, stars as a brilliant physician who deserted a booming private practice in Boston to work on a ghetto medicine program in Washington, D.C. When the widowed doctor first appears in the film, he is on vacation in London, living at a posh hotel in a style suitable to a vice roy. He falls in love with a lovely, intelligent young woman (Esther Anderson), whose uncle is an ambassador of a newly emergent African state. She is being devoured from within by sicklecell anemia, which happens...