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Take a Giant Step

Take a Giant Step (1959)

52% User Rating
1h 40min
Drama

"From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!"

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.

Philip LeacockDirector

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Johnny Nash

Johnny Nash

Spencer Scott

Estelle Hemsley

Estelle Hemsley

Grandmother Martin

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

Christine

Frederick O'Neal

Frederick O'Neal

Lem Scott

Beah Richards

Beah Richards

May Scott

Ellen Holly

Ellen Holly

The Girl in the Bar

Paulene Myers

Paulene Myers

Violet

Royce Wallace

Royce Wallace

Rose Thompson

Frances Foster

Frances Foster

Poppy

Roy Glenn

Roy Glenn

Minister

Dee Pollock

Dee Pollock

Tony

Bill Walker

Bill Walker

Frank

Bernie Hamilton

Bernie Hamilton

Bar Sharpie

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Delmar Erickson

Bobby

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Sherman Raskin

Alan

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