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Take a Giant Step

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Calorie Rating: 141
Released: 1959-12-01
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Budget: 300000
Studios: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions,


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.

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Cast

Johnny Nash
Character: Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley
Character: Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee
Character: Christine

Frederick O'Neal
Character: Lem Scott
Beah Richards
Character: May Scott
Ellen Holly
Character: The Girl in the Bar

Paulene Myers
Character: Violet
Royce Wallace
Character: Rose Thompson
Frances Foster
Character: Poppy

Roy Glenn
Character: Minister
Dee Pollock
Character: Tony
Bill Walker
Character: Frank

Bernie Hamilton
Character: Bar Sharpie
Delmar Erickson
Character: Bobby
Sherman Raskin
Character: Alan


Production and Crew

Louis S. Peterson
Theatre Play

Oliver Emert
Set Decoration
Jack Marshall
Original Music Composer

Arthur E. Arling
Director of Photography
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Edward Carrere
Art Direction