Pinky
by Elia Kazan, John Ford
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Actor: Basil Ruysdael, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain, William LundiganDirector: Elia Kazan, John Ford
Brand: CRAIN,JEANNE
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: Harmon Jones
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: Cid Ricketts Sumner
Writer: Dudley Nichols
Writer: Philip Dunne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Pinky
Movie Review: I remember this
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie, it reminded me of things in the past and the Love that African Americans share with the world
Summary of Pinky
Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to "pass for white." Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fianc? (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi. There, she helps her ailing grandmother (Ethel Waters) by caring for her employer (Ethel Barrymore), an imperious plantation owner. When she names Pinky heiress to her estate, the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial.Subject of landmark Supreme Court case in film censorship, this story about a mulatto woman's rights against prejudice, became itself, a battle for civil rights.
It used to be called "miscegenation," and it hasn't been a scandalous or taboo subject for several decades now. (Every other prime-time TV series seems to have an interracial romance going, and nobody bats an eyelash.) These welcome social changes have stranded Elia Kazan's 1949 weepie about a light-skinned African American woman (played less than convincingly by lily-white Jeanne Crain) who tries to "pass"---and falls in love with a white man. Director Douglas Sirk mined similar territory, and got a lot more juice out of it, in Imitation of Life. To his credit, perhaps, the director of On the Waterfront just doesn't have cheap soapsuds in his blood, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking a solemn and high-minded approach to this overheated material. The picture isn't even a hoot. Ethel Waters is the aunt who raises Pinky, while concealing her true lineage; it's a strong performance with a simmering subtext of anger. David Chute
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