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Pinky (1949)

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Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 6  Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5.9/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Synopsis: Cid Ricketts's controversial novel about miscegenation comes alive in this deliciously melodramatic film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore. Pinky, a proud, fair-skinned black woman, leaves her small southern hometown to attend nursing school up north. In... Cid Ricketts's controversial novel about miscegenation comes alive in this deliciously melodramatic film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore. Pinky, a proud, fair-skinned black woman, leaves her small southern hometown to attend nursing school up north. In Boston, Pinky "passes" for white and lives freely, unfettered by racial discrimination. At school, she dates the handsome -- and white -- Dr. Thomas Adam. Ignorant of her racial identity, he falls in love with her. Recognizing the problems associated with inter-racial marriage, Pinky returns home to her hard-working grandmother, hoping to forget Tom. But he's too dedicated to let her go. Instead, he follows Pinky south and tries to persuade her to renounce her origins and marry him in spite of everything. Will she choose a lifetime of love under false pretenses or make a steadfast decision to uplift her race? [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael

Director: Elia Kazan
Screenwriter: Dudley Nichols
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Composer: Alfred Newman

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 10, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case

Audio:

  • Stereo - English
  • Mono - English, Spanish, French
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

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This is a groundbreaking film despite its absurdly stiff way at looking at how blacks and whites interact.

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12/28/07
Dennis Schwartz
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4/4

This is a mature film, with great respect for the humanity of people who are able to transcend social barriers and care for one another.

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11/01/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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1/4

Pinky is 1949's Patch Adams, doing for half-breeds what that film did for assclowns.

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05/18/06
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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4/5

Vivid, revealing and emotionally intense.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
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06/28/05
Emanuel Levy
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10/04/03
Nell Minow
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
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Made at a time when racial discrimination was as much a part of the fabric of American life as apple pie, this is an early stab by Hollywood at countering racism.

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05/24/03
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The results are uneven, though fitfully interesting.

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01/01/00
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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