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A Patch of Blue (1965)

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A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Patch of Blue (1965)
A Film by Guy Green
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | MPEG 2 | 16:9 | 1h 45min | 720x480 | 29.97 fps | Lang: English, French | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Audio#1: English AC3 @ 192Kbps | Audio#2: French AC3 @ 192Kbps | Cover + Extras | 4.30 GB
Genre: Drama | Romance

IMDB
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
Directed by: Guy Green
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

Storyline: Accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother Rose-Ann at the age of five, Selina D'Arcey spends the next 13 years confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with "Ole Pa", Selina's grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selina meets Gordon Ralfe, a thoughtful young office worker whose kind-hearted treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to get along in the city. But when the cruel, domineering Rose-Ann learns of their relationship, she forbids her to have anything more to do with him because he is black. Selina continues to meet Gordon despite Rose-Ann's fury, who is determined to end the relationship for good.

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A Patch of Blue (1965)

A perrennial favorite 'small movie' that's always appealed to Sidney Poitier fans, A Patch of Blue is dramatically far superior to his Oscar winner from a couple of seasons earlier, Lilies of the Field. The difference is in the direction - ex cameraman Guy Green both wrote and very sensitively directed this tale of a handicapped girl coming of age in squalid surroundings, and falling in love with a man she doesn't know is black.

A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Judging by the examples of Guy Green and Jack Cardiff, British ex-cinematographers make excellent directors. In this picture, Green and producer Pandro Berman fashioned a studio film with neither a studio look nor a studio attitude. Released in the years when the name Sidney Poitier was synonymous with quality shows about black men who refused to be classified by color, A Patch of Blue has dated very little. Poitier's Gordon Ralfe is not a black superman or an ideal exponent of civil rights, but a guy just trying to get along.

A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

The prejudice portrayed in A Patch of Blue is neither overstated or one-sided. A pair of biddies give a mixed-race couple hard stares of disapprove, but no longer feel free to shout or cry for assistance, as they might, were the film made a few years earlier. Gordon's brother Mark may be positively 'typed' as a doctor, but he has grave & unyielding misgivings about Gordon's judgement in getting involved with a white girl. Likewise, Selina's mother and Ole Pa aren't raving racists, but average whites who take their dislike of blacks for a given … well, let's say they're normal unenlightened Americans (oxymoron?), which may indeed mean they're raving racists. But they are average people, not caricatures of specific attitudes.

A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Patch of Blue is actually one of the first films to downplay the race card, as it were … an observation that will only seem true when comparing it to pictures of its time, the sort that followed more closely the hysteria of The Defiant Ones.

A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Poitier is the star, but A Patch of Blue is Elizabeth Hartman's picture. A frail-looking girl with an expressive voice, she became a star, but was only seen in a few more noteworthy roles. Her Selina is an extremely sensitive, believable characterization. She expresses the idea of blindness beyond being a simply mechanical problem, or a case of limited perception, as in the excellent Wait Until Dark. We're acutely aware of Selina's adaptation to her squalid environment, and quickly realize that there's every likelihood that the dirty apartment and low-life relatives are the only reality she knows.

DVD Extras:
* Commentary by Writer-Director Guy Green
* Sidney Poitier - The Legacy
* Stills Gallery
* Awards
* Theatrical Trailer
* Cast & Crew
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