Directed by:
Zoltan KordaScreenplay:
John Howard LawsonCinematography:
Robert KraskerCast:
Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Geoffrey Keen, Joyce Carey, Edric Connor, Michael Goodliffe, Lionel Ngakane, Stanley Van Beers, Scott Harold, Charles Carson (more)VOD (1)
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Made in South Africa and London, this film version of Alan Paton's best-seller was released two years after the tale had come to the stage as "Lost in the Stars." Lee is a decent man of the cloth who comes from the hinterlands to Johannesburg to find his son and sister, both of whom now live in a dank, rat-infested slum. Lee's son, Lionel Ngakane, has already been changed enough by life in the city to have killed a white man during a robbery. Ironically, the dead man was the son of Carson, a rich farmer from the region where Lee has his parish. Now both Carson and Lee have lost a son--Carson to Ngakane's bullet, and Lee to prison. Pregnant with Ngakane's child, Ribbon Dhlamini stands by the young man through his trial, during which we are introduced to all of the parties involved: Carey, the dead man's mother; Edric Connor, Lee's devious brother; Geoffrey Keen, the white head of a church mission; and a very young Poitier as a preacher. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Canada Lee
USA
Best movies:
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Body and Soul (1947)
Sidney Poitier
USA
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Geoffrey Keen
UK
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Joyce Carey
UK
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Edric Connor
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Michael Goodliffe
UK
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The One That Got Away (1957)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Lionel Ngakane
South Africa
Best movies:
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Stanley Van Beers
UK
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Scott Harold
Best movies:
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Charles Carson
UK
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John Arnatt
Russia
Best movies:
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Michael Golden
Ireland
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The One That Got Away (1957)
Murder She Said (1961)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)