Take a Giant Step (1959)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1959-12-01
Director: Philip Leacock
Writers: Louis S. Peterson , Julius J. Epstein
Language: English
Stars: Johnny Nash , Estelle Hemsley , Ruby Dee , Frederick O’Neal , Beah Richards (1920–2000) , Ellen Holly , Paulene Myers , Frances Foster , Royce Wallace , Sherman Raskin
Runtime: 100 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 3 nominations total
AKA: L'orma del gigante (Italy) , Take a Giant Step , Unge længsler (Denmark) , Take a Giant Step (United States of America) , Take a Giant Step (Canada) , Ta et kjempeskritt (Norway) , Nuoret elämän kynnyksellä (Finland) , Spring über deinen Schatten , Ta ihni tou gigantos (Greece)
Plot: A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.
IMDB:tt0053331