Take a Giant Step
From Playground to hunting ground - in a bar!
1959-12-01 | 100 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Johnny NashSpencer Scott
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Estelle HemsleyGrandmother Martin
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Ruby DeeChristine
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Frederick O'NealLem Scott
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Beah RichardsMay Scott
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Ellen HollyThe Girl in the Bar
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Paulene MyersViolet
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Royce WallaceRose Thompson
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Frances FosterPoppy
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Roy GlennMinister
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Dee PollockTony
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Bill WalkerFrank
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Bernie HamiltonBar Sharpie