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Take a Giant Step

52 %|Dec 1, 1959|Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Philip Leacock
Director
Louis S. Peterson
Screenplay
Louis S. Peterson
Theatre Play
Julius J. Epstein
Screenplay
Julius J. Epstein
Producer
Oliver Emert
Set Decoration
Jack Marshall
Original Music Composer
Arthur E. Arling
Director of Photography

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Cast

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Johnny Nash
Spencer Scott
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Estelle Hemsley
Grandmother Martin
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Ruby Dee
Christine
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Beah Richards
May Scott
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Ellen Holly
The Girl in the Bar
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Royce Wallace
Rose Thompson
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Roy Glenn
Minister
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Bernie Hamilton
Bar Sharpie