(TV Series)

(1961)

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10/10
Intense, gripping, emotional--about racism in 1960
tactile-1005022 June 2015
(For some reason IMDb says this is a comedy. There is not one word of humor. It is an intense, excellent, movie film that left everyone at the screening (just after the horrific South Carolina gunman killed the people in the church, 6/2015) saying WOW due to the emotional intensity. The writer is the man who did 12 Angry Men.)

This is one of the best films I have ever seen. Gripping, emotional, intense, superbly written.

It's my first time posting to IMDb--that's how important I found this film!!

Racism comes to a boiling point just after the Supreme Court rules on Brown vs. Board of Education. The story resets four times--to follow that fateful morning and the paths that four characters take, giving you back story on each.

It's too bad that 1. TV no longer makes moving intense television like this and 2. why won't they show programs like this from the 1950s and 1960s on TV now? They are timely, thoughtful, intense and superbly written.

So many channels, so little to watch. If someone would run these lost TV shows on TV on a regular basis, it would elevate writing, acting, and the social conversation on so many topics.
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