Black Like Me (1964)
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Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that the best way to understand what it was like to be black in a segregated south was to experience the feeling first-hand, Griffin (James Whitmore) undergoes… More Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that the best way to understand what it was like to be black in a segregated south was to experience the feeling first-hand, Griffin (James Whitmore) undergoes extensive-and sometimes painful-skin pigmentation treatments. Though he tends to look more like Al Jolson or Eddie Cantor rather than African American, Whitmore does a creditable job playing a proud man forced into subservience by an unfeeling white society. Unfortunately, the film falls prey to stylistic affectations, notably an overabundance of confusing flashbacks. Though dating and occasionally patronizing, Black Like Me is still a worthwhile effort. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Carl Lerner
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 20, 1964 Wide
- Studio
- Unknown
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Cast
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James Whitmore
as John Finley Horton
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Sorrell Booke
as Dr.Jackson
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Al Freeman Jr.
as Tom Newcomb
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Roscoe Lee Browne
as Christopher
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Clifton James
as Eli Carr
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Dan Priest
as Bus Driver
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Walter Mason
as Mason
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John Marriott
as Hodges
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Lenka Peterson
as Lucy Horton
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Richard Ward
as Burt Wilson
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Llewellyn B. Skinner
as Stretch
- Raymond St. Jacques
- Will Geer
- Robert Gerringer
- Thelma Oliver
