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...Poitier), chained together at the wrist, are the only two to escape when a prison truck cracks up in a ditch. Linked but loathing, they stumble through swampland, nearly drown fording a river, nearly wrench their arms from their sockets clawing out of a deep clay pit. When they pause, it is not to rest but to spit forth their hatred. Telling Poitier why he is a "nigger," Curtis says: "It's like callin' a spade a spade. I'm a hunky. I don't try to argue out of it." Replies Actor Poitier: "You ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

First, Singer Harry Belafonte turned down an offer of a part. Then Actor Sidney (Edge of the City) Poitier quit his co-starring role as Porgy, declared that the show was a "classic," but "as a creative artist, I just do not have enough interest in the piece." Goldwyn's version of the incident: Poitier quit after his demand to approve the script had been refused. Said Goldwyn: "If Poitier had seen a script and the way we are treating Porgy and Bess, he would be excited to do it." Goldwyn would name no names of other entertainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boycott in Hollywood? | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark in the col', col' groun'. In the fury of his ingratitude, he is obliged to cuff Mulatto De Carlo for flouncing around like uppity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Edge of the City (at Loew's Lancaster Theatre near North Station through Saturday). The moving tale of an intelligent Negro who befriends a confused white youth--both in the grips of a racially bigoted foreman. One of the decade's best films, with flawless performances by Sidney Poitier, John Cassavetes and Jack Warden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recommended Movies... | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...Cinema in Framingham). Hard-hitting transferral to the screen of Robert Ruark's harder-hitting best-seller about the white British versus the black Mau-Mau in Africa. Laudably, the complex issues are not oversimplified; and both sides are properly shown to be at fault. Superlative performances by Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller and Juano Hernandez. Even Rock Hudson is good; and Dana Wynter's appearances are fortunately brief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recommended Movies... | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

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