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...movie with a message: a man is ten feet tall. That, in fact, is the title of the Robert Alan Aurthur TV play from which Author Aurthur adapted the movie. The unusual thing about the film is that the message is delivered by a Negro (Sidney Poitier) to a white man (John Cassavetes). Surprisingly enough in a Hollywood movie, the Negro is not only the white man's boss, but becomes his best friend, and is at all times his superior, possessing greater intelligence, courage, understanding, warmth and general adaptability. The mystery is why so engaging a Negro would...
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier in A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...
...breathing chalk dust for 30 years. Better still are the students themselves, some of whom were borrowed from their desks in the Los Angeles public school system. The sense of them there in the background has obviously provided a true emotional standard to which the professional actors, notably Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow, could repair...
...word about the acting. It is excellent, especially that of Canada Lee in the role of the native pastor, and that of Sidney Poitier as a Young colored priest...
...seem psychopathic; instead, his role in the film is a symbolic, gathering behind one grinning mask all the virulence of Beaver Canal. In the only role of individuality, Linda Darnell is a slattern trying to escape from her slum background, who betrays and then rescues the Negro doctor (Stephen Poitier) accused of murdering Biddle's brother...