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Odds Against Tomorrow. Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel of the same name by William P. McGivern. Blacklisted in those years, Polonsky had to use a ...
The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction [3] [4] doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The film stars Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. [4] The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors. It is based on two sources: the 1901 novel The Purple ...
Musical artist. Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.
4. “Jump in the Line” (1961) “Island in the Sun” was Belafonte’s last Hot 100 hit, but his albums continued to sell well, particularly when he returned to Caribbean styles on 1961’s ...
Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 American Western film released by Columbia Pictures, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee . This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed. Vincent Canby of The New York Times said Poitier "showed a talent for easy, unguarded ...
Harry Belafonte as David Boyeur, a black politician leading the lower class, who is attracted to Mavis Norman. Joan Fontaine as Mavis Norman, an elite white woman who lacks direction in her life, and is drawn towards the magnetism of David Boyeur. Joan Collins as Jocelyn Fleury, the alluring sister of Maxwell, who falls in love with Euan Templeton.
White Man's Burden is a 1995 American drama film about racism, [2] set in an alternative America where the social and economic positions of black people and white people are reversed. The film was written and directed by Desmond Nakano. The film revolves around Louis Pinnock ( John Travolta ), a white factory worker, who kidnaps Thaddeus Thomas ...
“I do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege,” Hostin, 55, said on the Wednesday, May 22, episode of The View. “There is a thing called white privilege. “There is a thing ...