Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303922249 Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303922244 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 27, 1998 Running Time: 99 minutes Sales Rank: 1399 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 1949
Description: Story of a light-skinned Negro doctor who, along with his family, passes for white in a New Hampshire town.
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Rating: - Wonderful!
Lost Boundaries is a great black american classic movie. I would recommend this movie to anyone that would like to see a wonderful family deal with racisim in the early 1920's in New Hampshire. I purchased two so one could be given as a Birthday gift to my sister.
Just a wonderful film and a joy to see how people really can over come some of this countries race problems.
Rating: - Haunting Parable of US Race Relations
The movie reeks of a certain kind of social realism that would later, in the 1950s, bloom into such "classics" as REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, THE WILD ONE, etc, but LOST BOUNDARIES fascinates because of its race theme and the way n which it employs white actors to pass as black, even while the characters are black passing for white. Alfred Werker, the director, brings a Hawthornean sense of pain and desolation to the New England scenes, which are scary precisely because they're all set in Greek Revival style churches and private houses, very upper middle class, and yet they look like whitened sepulchres, for everything's white without a drop of color, as though some Puritan or Shaker influence from hundreds of years past had interdicted even the slightest shade of color. Mel Ferrer and Beatrice Pearson are splendid in the parts of the older Carters, Scott and Marcia, the ones who decide to marry ... Read More
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