 | To Sir, with Love [Read More ...]
Description: Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Poitier is very good as a ma... |
 | Separate But Equal [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues... |
 | Good-bye, My Lady [Read More ...]
Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan star in the simple-and simply charming-story of a Mississippi swamp boy's discovery of an unusual dog who steals his heart, based on James Street's novel. Year: 1956 Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde |
 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner [Read More ...]
Description: Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been kno... |
 | Lilies of the Field [Read More ...]
Description: Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for this endearing movie about a handyman who thinks he's just passing through a little town in New Mexico, and ends up staying awhile to build a chapel for a cluster of German-speaking nuns. The renowned actor is highly entertaining in his combative e... |
 | The Slender Thread [Read More ...]
Review: "Route 66" and "Naked City" fans will love this film:Stirling Silliphant wrote the script for this movie, being the primary writer for the "Route 66" TV series in the 60's it has a very similar feeling to one of those shows. All of the drama, the monologues, the glitz and glamour... |
 | Paris Blues [Read More ...]
Review: Pleasant but uninvolving drama:Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier play US expatriates ,both jazz musicians,living and working in Paris .Newman is in Paris because he feels more able to grow musically in a European environment while Poitier is escaping racial prejudice in the US .The... |
 | In the Heat of the Night [Read More ...]
Description: This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man... |
 | Sneakers [Read More ...]
Description: This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency... |
 | A Patch of Blue [Read More ...]
Description: One of the first studio films to deal with interracial romance (or even the possibility of it), A Patch of Blue was a huge hit upon its release, appealing to those looking for both social protest and a smart date movie. Sidney Poitier plays Gordon, a compassionate stranger who b... |
 | Blackboard Jungle [Read More ...]
Description: Novelist Evan Hunter burst America's postwar bubble when he described an inner-city school terrorized by switchblade-wielding juvenile delinquents. Director-screenwriter Richard Brooks's 1955 adaptation of Blackboard Jungle still packs a tremendous wallop (even if it was shot mos... |
 | The Jackal [Read More ...]
Description: The best way to enjoy this 1997 thriller is to forget the much better film that inspired it (1973's The Day of the Jackal) and get whatever kicks you can from this heavy-metal remake. It's not bad as hokey thrillers go, but all of the original film's suspenseful finesse has been ... |
 | The Lost Man [Read More ...]
Review: great soundtrack:This is a good movie about explosive late 60s race relations. But the soundtrack is not listed on Amazon. So I will use the movie entry to review the soundtack.
Quincy Jones, one of the absolute best film composers of this time, wrote the Lost Man Soundtrack, an... |
 | Band of Angels [Read More ...]
Gone With The Wind star Clark Gable flexes his muscular charms in another Civil War-era movie about the torrid romance between a plantation owner and a half-caste beauty. Year: 1957 Director: Raoul Walsh Starring: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier |
 | Buck & The Preacher [Read More ...]
Description: Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story of a wagon-train guide and a con man who team up to throw a posse of white night... |
 | Free of Eden [Read More ...]
Description: In this tale of intersecting lives in New York City, Sidney Poitier plays a powerful Manhattan business executive whose roots were in a Brooklyn ghetto, and Poitier's daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, plays a teenager living in a South Brooklyn housing project who wants to break f... |
 | Shoot To Kill [Read More ...]
Great Movie "Shoot To kill ":Great Actors & Story Im glad Included it for my collection Sidney Poitier is the best |
 | The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn [Read More ...]
Review: A real "must" for your soul:I have just received this video, My player allowes playback PAL and NTSC system. Looking for so long to find it. Thanks Amazon!!!This movie gives you the perfect inside on what is really important in life.No, not the money or the rush or the importance... |
 | Duel at Diablo [Read More ...]
James Garner --- another rewarding movie:Unlike some of his movies, in this role as an Indian Scout you see a different multi-culture side of him. |
 | Blackboard Jungle [Read More ...]
Description: Novelist Evan Hunter burst America's postwar bubble when he described an inner-city school terrorized by switchblade-wielding juvenile delinquents. Director-screenwriter Richard Brooks's 1955 adaptation of Blackboard Jungle still packs a tremendous wallop (even if it was shot mos... |
