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Directed by SIDNEY POITIER...
...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...
Flashing a set of scrupulously blackened teeth, Belafonte overacts outrageously but amusingly. Poitier mostly contents himself with dispensing his standard Captain Marvel characterization. Even so, there are a couple of scenes - especially one where Buck talks quietly about an impending defeat - in which Poitier reminds us that he is still a superb actor. For the past few years, that has been all too easy to forget...