Description
Set in the 1960’s, NOTHING BUT A MAN is an uplifting love story about a man and a woman whose bond overcomes racial and class barriers. Duff, a railroad section hand is forced to confront prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher’s daughter. NOTHING BUT A MAN stars Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess, Car Wash, and A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called "terrific." The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, The Miracles, and The Marvelettes.
Acclaimed by critics and revered by film buffs, NOTHING BUT A MAN was theatrically re-released to rave reviews in 1993. This ground-breaking American classic is available for the first time on video to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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From the era when American films almost never put black characters at the center of a movie, Nothing but a Man stands like a beacon of intelligence and sympathy. It was shot in 1964 at the height of the Civil Rights movement by two Jewish white men, director Michael Roemer and cinematographer Robert M. Young, who wrote the script after traveling through the South and immersing themselves in African American life. Ivan Dixon (later of Hogan's Heroes) plays a railroad worker who settles down to marry a preacher's daughter (jazz singer Abbey Lincoln), only to find that the system is rigged against him. The film is not condescending or idealizing in its approach; some of the problems of the characters are outside the reality of racism. Aside from its status as a landmark social-issue film, it is good to recognize, 40 years on, what a terrific piece of filmmaking this is, with fine acting (Yaphet Kotto and Gloria Foster are in the cast), lucid dialogue, and a fresh feeling for everyday domestic life. --Robert Horton
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