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14/10/1960 Drama 1h 27m
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Overview

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

  1. John Cassavetes

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Ben Carruthers

    Ben

  2. Lelia Goldoni

    Lelia

  3. Hugh Hurd

    Hugh

  4. Anthony Ray

    Tony

  5. Dennis Sallas

    Dennis

  6. Tom Reese

    Tom

  7. David Pokitillow

    David

  8. Rupert Crosse

    Rupert

  9. Davey Jones

    Davey

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-02-19
On paper, this jazz-fuelled, experimental looking, observation of racial tensions within a small group of friends made for an interesting concept. The execution though, well I found that really quite messy. There's three siblings. "Benny" (Ben Carruthers); "Hugh" (Hugh Lord) and "Leila" (Leila Goldoni) with the sister having a far fairer skin tone than her brothers. "Benny" is a bit of a loose cannon, going with the flow in life; "Hugh" is a musician who is having a bit of a crisis of confidence that not even his supportive manager "Rupert" (Rupert Cross) can pull him from and finally there's ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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