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Diana Wynyard, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte

This race-relations film from 1957, based on a novel by Alec Waugh and set on a West Indies island, stars James Mason as a wealthy man who runs against a local union leader (Harry Belafonte). The rest...( read more  read more... ) of the players, one way or another, deal with the consequences of their rivalry. Mason and Belafonte leave a strong impression, but the film overall doesn't live up to its own sense of significance. Joan Collins is good as Mason's sister, who worries that the contest will cost her an engagement to the governor's son. --Tom Keogh

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Unrated, 119 min.

Directed by: Robert Rossen

Release Date: January 1, 1957

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DVD Release Date: January 10, 2006

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