A late noir, 1959’s Odds Against Tomorrow puts aside the femme fatales and husbands in distress in favor of an apparently simple crime—robbery for the sake of acquiring some much needed cash—and taps into the racial unease of the era that exists within the criminal element as well as anywhere else. Directed by Robert Wise, Odds Against Tomorrow is produced by Harry Belafonte, who also
A glittering achievement in cinema due to its all black cast, Carmen Jones was adapted by director Otto Preminger from Oscar Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical, which was itself based on George Bizet’s classic 19th century opera Carmen. Though slightly stilted in its execution, the still sultry and dramatic performance of Dorothy Dandridge, who became the first African American to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination
Rarely available in its full form since 1970 Ely Landau’s King: A Filmed Record is one of the most important documents of the American civil rights movement. Told without traditional narration, this 181-minute documentary follows the last thirteen years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s public life. The occasional subtitle is used to identify dates, places and the occasional individual. However, this documentary is truly
Kino Lorber has acquired all worldwide rights to the acclaimed and seminal documentary King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970). Produced for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation by Ely Landau (The American Film Theater collection), King is an epic document of the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott to his assassination in 1968. Both a historiography