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Sapphire (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Basil Dearden

Written By:
Janet Green
Lukas Heller

Actors:
Nigel Patrick ..... Superintendent Robert Hazard
Michael Craig ..... Inspector Phil Learoyd
Yvonne Mitchell ..... Mildred
Paul Massie ..... David Harris
Bernard Miles ..... Ted Harris
Olga Lindo ..... Mrs. Harris
Earl Cameron ..... Dr. Robbins
Gordon Heath ..... Paul Slade
Jocelyn Britton ..... Patsy
Harry Baird ..... Johnnie Fiddle
Orlando Martins ..... Barman
Rupert Davies ..... Jack Ferris
Yvonne Buckingham ..... Sapphire Robbins
Robert Adams ..... Horace Big Cigar
Freda Bamford ..... Sgt. Cook

Synopsis:

Basil Dearden's ground-breaking tale starring Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portraying two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth indictment of racism and bigotry as the detectives investigate the vast array of suspects - everyone from the girl's white boyfriend and his parents who feared that the association would destroy his career to the boys that the girl had spurned when she was accepted by white society. Winner of BAFTA for Best British Film 1960.

Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portray two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth indictment of racism and bigotry as the detectives investigate the vast array of suspects--everyone from the girl's white boyfriend and his parents who feared that the association would destroy his career to the boys that the girl had spurned when she was accepted by white society.

In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. As two detectives start to investigate, and discover her racial origins were much more mixed, public prejudices and those of the officers themselves are exposed.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.

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