Take a Giant Step (1959)

ALL 12/01/1959 (en) Drama 100 Min
  • Release
    12/01/1959
  • Production
    Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    Take a Giant Step
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!

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.

  1. Philip Leacock

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Frank Gross

    Editor



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Casts

  1. Johnny Nash

    Spencer Scott

  2. Estelle Hemsley

    Grandmother Martin

  3. Ruby Dee

    Christine

  4. Frederick O'Neal

    Lem Scott

  5. Beah Richards

    May Scott

  6. Ellen Holly

    The Girl in the Bar

  7. Paulene Myers

    Violet

  8. Royce Wallace

    Rose Thompson

  9. Frances Foster

    Poppy

  10. Roy Glenn

    Minister

  11. Dee Pollock

    Tony

  12. Bill Walker

    Frank

  13. Bernie Hamilton

    Bar Sharpie

  14. Delmar Erickson

    Bobby

  15. Sherman Raskin

    Alan

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 15 , Crews : 11

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Take a Giant Step (1959) 100 Min

ALL 12/01/1959 (en)
Drama
  • Release 12/01/1959
  • Production
    Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions
  • Original title Take a Giant Step
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!

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.

  1. Philip Leacock

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Frank Gross

    Editor

  4. Julius J. Epstein

    Producer