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Director:
Carl Lerner
Writers:
John Howard Griffin (book)
Carl Lerner (writer)
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Release Date:
20 May 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John... more | add synopsis
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Another case of reverse racism more

Cast

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James Whitmore ... John Finley Horton
Sorrell Booke ... Dr. Jackson
Roscoe Lee Browne ... Christopher
Al Freeman Jr. ... Thomas Newcomb
Will Geer ... Truckdriver
Robert Gerringer ... Ed Saunders
Clifton James ... Eli Carr
John Marriott ... Hodges
Thelma Oliver ... Georgie
Lenka Peterson ... Lucy Horton (as Lenka Petersen)
P. Jay Sidney ... Frank Newcomb (as P.J. Sidney)
Billie Allen ... Vertell
Alan Bergmann ... Charles Maynard
Stanley Brock ... Salesman

Heywood Hale Broun
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Latin
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Hearts Afire: Fat Like Me (#3.6)" (1994) more

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8 out of 46 people found the following comment useful:-
Another case of reverse racism, 12 February 2006
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Author: (ultimatecgc) from United States

This is another case of the truth being skewed by lies. The is a great example of reverse racism. All white people must be hateful and go out of their way to put the black man in their place. So if you are white you are spiteful and hateful and if you black then you are easy going and care about everyone and everything. Come on we have to wake up and smell the coffee. I am white and I have never said a unkind word to anyone. If you watch these "eye opening" movies then me being white am just a hateful person. Movies like these are designed to put down the white man as nothing more then just spending his days trying to find new ways of putting down another race. Wake up and see that not every white person is racist.

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