Bright Road – Dorothy Dandridge DVD

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Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies’ Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year’s Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and liar.

 

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A year before they shot to stardom in Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte made this inspiring film about a gifted educator and a lost boy. Dandridge plays Jane Richards, a fourth-grade teacher concerned about young C.T. (Philip Hepburn), a student whose indifference to school has even the principal (screen-debuting Belafonte) calling him a backwards child. Troubles as typical as a schoolyard brawl and as tragic as a classmate’s death drive C.T. further into his shell. But Jane perseveres, hoping to help her student develop – the same way a caterpillar, in a cocoon C.T. guards, turns into a butterfly. One of the few mainstream films of it’s era to have a largely African-American cast, Bright Road boasts impressive talents behind the camera as well as on the screen, including director of photography Alfred Gilks, lending his first feature-length film since winning an Academy Award for An American in Paris.

 

REGION ALL NTSC DVD  PLAYS WORLDWIDE

 

This item is a manufactured-on-demand release. Using recordable CDs & DVDs, the label who owns the rights to these MOD releases, custom burns discs for each order sold. Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these  MOD discs.

 

 

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Format

MOD DVD

Release Year

1953

Region Code

DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Special Features

Manufactured on Demand, NTSC

Genre

Drama

Actor

Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Robert Horton

Movie/TV Title

Bright Road