Take a Giant Step(1959)

🎬100 min
📅1959-12-01
🎭Drama
5.2/10

Overview

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.

Production

Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions

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Cast

Johnny Nash
as Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley
as Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee
as Christine
Frederick O'Neal
as Lem Scott
Beah Richards
as May Scott
Ellen Holly
as The Girl in the Bar
Paulene Myers
as Violet
Royce Wallace
as Rose Thompson
Frances Foster
as Poppy
Roy Glenn
as Minister