For its time, this was an unusual film. It's not got a lot of things going for it. The writing is sometimes painful. The acting is usually static. The sets are sometimes just pasted together. The fades/dissolves are dated. The music is more dramatic than the scenes deserve.
But ... but ... but ...
This was an interesting and perhaps brave film to make, where it portrays black Americans not as sympathetic powerless people but in actuality just normal people trying to navigate a dangerous society.
*** SPOILER *** After a mixed-race man's black daughter is killed in a church by Klansman, he decides to go undercover with the local KKK Klaven. The mighty are overturned and secrets are discovered.
Hokey, yes, but really, it was a very honest effort to make a film about something few others have made a film about.
But ... but ... but ...
This was an interesting and perhaps brave film to make, where it portrays black Americans not as sympathetic powerless people but in actuality just normal people trying to navigate a dangerous society.
*** SPOILER *** After a mixed-race man's black daughter is killed in a church by Klansman, he decides to go undercover with the local KKK Klaven. The mighty are overturned and secrets are discovered.
Hokey, yes, but really, it was a very honest effort to make a film about something few others have made a film about.