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Take a Giant Step
From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!
19591h 40mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.
Keywords
- racism
- high school
- running away
- coming of age
- loss of virginity
- maid
- sexual awakening
- older woman younger man relationship
- grandmother grandson relationship
- expelled from school
- barflies
- angry young man
- cruel reality
- black family
- fake friends
- young black kid
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 1, 1959
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions
- Cast
- Estelle Hemsley,Paulene Myers,Delmar Erickson,Frances Foster,Bernie Hamilton,Royce Wallace,Dee Pollock,Sherman Raskin,Roy Glenn,Bill Walkerand 5 more
- Director
- Philip Leacock
- Producer
- Julius J. Epstein
- Cinematography
- Arthur E. Arling
- Music
- Jack Marshall
- Budget
- $300,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0053331