Just last month on I highlighted this film on S & A and suggested to keep an eye out for Bright Road on Turner Classics Movies, since it’s been broadcast on the channel several times before. Well, it’s happening sooner than I expected, since the film will be shown on TCM on Weds Sept 8th at 12:30Pm (11:30Am central).
As I said before, Bright Road is a really charming, sweet-natured, winning, totally black cast B-movie, made by MGM in under 20 days, about a young teacher, played by a young, strikingly beautiful Dorothy Dandridge, who tries to nurture and guide a rebellious student. Harry Belafonte plays the principal and a sort of timid love interest for Dandridge. It’s pure old-fashioned 1950’s hokum, but I don’t know anyone who hasn’t seen this film who wasn’t completely won over by it.
It’s never been available...
As I said before, Bright Road is a really charming, sweet-natured, winning, totally black cast B-movie, made by MGM in under 20 days, about a young teacher, played by a young, strikingly beautiful Dorothy Dandridge, who tries to nurture and guide a rebellious student. Harry Belafonte plays the principal and a sort of timid love interest for Dandridge. It’s pure old-fashioned 1950’s hokum, but I don’t know anyone who hasn’t seen this film who wasn’t completely won over by it.
It’s never been available...
- 7/31/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Here’s the trailer for the 1953 MGM B-movie, Bright Road, with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. It’s really a very simple, charming film. Perhaps too corny for today’s tastes (along with an equally corny musical soundtrack), but still very well worth watching; and it’s shown often on Turner Classic Movies so keep an eye out for it.
And as the voice-over says, it’s an unusual film. It was quite unusual back then to make a film about a young black teacher who helps and inspires a rebellious young black boy (Let’s be honest, a film like that would be unusual even today). But the trailer is also quite interesting because it sets up Dandridge as on the verge of being a major Hollywood star, about to hit the big time. Of course we know how that ended. Hollywood didn’t know what do do with her,...
And as the voice-over says, it’s an unusual film. It was quite unusual back then to make a film about a young black teacher who helps and inspires a rebellious young black boy (Let’s be honest, a film like that would be unusual even today). But the trailer is also quite interesting because it sets up Dandridge as on the verge of being a major Hollywood star, about to hit the big time. Of course we know how that ended. Hollywood didn’t know what do do with her,...
- 6/20/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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