Take a Giant Step

December. 01,1959      
Rating:
6.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

Johnny Nash as  Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley as  Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee as  Christine
Frederick O'Neal as  Lem Scott
Beah Richards as  May Scott
Ellen Holly as  The Girl in the Bar
Paulene Myers as  Violet
Frances Foster as  Poppy
Roy Glenn as  Minister
Dee Pollock as  Tony

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Reviews

Perry Kate
1959/12/01

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Phonearl
1959/12/02

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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Listonixio
1959/12/03

Fresh and Exciting

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ThedevilChoose
1959/12/04

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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