The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman(1974)

🎬112 min
📅1974-01-31
🎭Drama, TV Movie
⭐6.4/10

Overview

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.

Production

Tomorrow Entertainment

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Cast

Cicely Tyson
as Jane Pittman
Eric Brown
as Jimmy (age 7)
Richard Dysart
as Master Bryant
Joel Fluellen
as Unc Isom
Will Hare
as Elbert Cluveau
Katherine Helmond
as Lady at House
David Hooks
as Colonel Dye
Elinora B. Johnson
as Mary
Warren Kenner
as Job
Dudley Knight
as Trooper Brown

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