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Cry, the Beloved Country

film by Korda [1951]

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In Zoltan Korda
…returned to England to make Cry, the Beloved Country (1951), from Alan Paton’s novel about racial tension and reconciliation in South Africa. Sidney Poitier, Canada Lee, and Charles Carson were the principals in this tragic and powerful film. Korda’s final picture was Storm over the Nile (1955; codirected with Terence
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In Sidney Poitier: Hollywood trailblazer
He next appeared in Cry, the Beloved Country (1951), an adaptation of Alan Paton’s novel about a murder in apartheid South Africa; Poitier portrayed a reverend. Another of his notable early roles was Gregory Miller, an alienated high school student in the 1955 film adaptation of Evan Hunter’s novel…
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