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Nothing But a Man by Michael Roemer
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Ivan Dixon, Julius Harris, Martin Priest Director: Michael Roemer Brand: New Video Cinematographer: Robert M. Young Producer: Robert M. Young Writer: Robert M. Young Producer: Michael Roemer Writer: Michael Roemer Editor: Luke Bennett Producer: Robert Rubin DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 92 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Cinema V
Movie Reviews of Nothing But a ManMovie Review: NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964) - amazing! Summary: 5 Stars
I always wanted to see NOTHING BUT A MAN. It never became the independent hit it deserved to be, yet I can understand why it holds a special place in 60's film history. After watching it last evening, I thought of films like THE PAWNBROKER and a handful of other gritty black and white films of the era: films that realistically and powerfully dealt with adult issues and created a much-needed contrast to the Rock Hudson-Doris Day fluff films that were still quite popular. This film presents its African American characters as realistically as any documentary, with few if any cliches. The late Ivan Dixon plays a young man in pre-Civil Rights America, who has to hang tightly to his dignity as he tries to build a reasonably conventional life under very difficult circumstances in the South. The cast is uniformly good. (The 2004 40-years-later extras on the DVD are interesting to add perspective to the film.) Because wonderful films like this are really time capsules to some degree, I couldn't help but think about all the "people of a certain type" today who criticize our African American President because they feel he doesn't blindly praise America at every turn. Some feel he apologizes for America and points out our shortcomings too frequently. Those folks, obviously short on memory, should watch NOTHING BUT A MAN in order to review the plight of one minority group just a few decades ago. I was, luckily, raised in a very inclusive environment so when I see bigotry in films like this, I can't get my head around the kind of mean-spirited people who treat fellow human beings with such contempt. Alas, these types are still very much among us, only they must keep their prejudices to themselves more than they ever had to in the era in which NOTHING BUT A MAN was made. I was only 14 when this film came out and I'm still shocked that this environment existed at all during my lifetime. How far we've come, and yet we have a long way to go. After seeing this film, I hope there comes a day in which it is shown to an audience that is both shocked and unable to grasp that any of the hatred and prejudices so forcefully recorded in 1964 could have ever existed. The power of positive change is best seen in the context from which the change evolved. NOTHING BUT A MAN serves us well in this regard.
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