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A Patch of Blue
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
1965 · Directed by Guy Green · 105 min · Drama · Romance · 10 frames
Tagline
Love is color blind.
Crew
- Screenplay: Guy Green
- Cinematography: Robert Burks
- Edited by: Rita Roland
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Produced by: Pandro S. Berman, Guy Green
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Gordon Ralfe
- Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann D'Arcey
- Elizabeth Hartman as Selina D'Arcey
- Wallace Ford as Ole Pa
- Ivan Dixon as Mark Ralfe
- Elisabeth Fraser as Sadie
- John Qualen as Mr. Faber
- Kelly Flynn as Yanek Faber
- Debi Storm as Selina, Age 5
- Renata Vanni as Mrs. Favaloro
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $800,000
- Box office: $6,792,000
- Themes: friendship, prostitute, grandparent grandchild relationship, tension, racism, blind, park, tenement, blindness, innocence lost
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