Black like me [videorecording] / a Walter Reade/Sterling presentation ; presented by Victor Weingarten ; screenplay by Gerda Lerner, Carl Lerner ; produced by Julius Tannenbaum ; directed by Carl Lerner.

Black like me (Motion picture)

Toronto, Ont. : Video Service Corp., [2012]

English

Closed-captioned in English.

2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

778854191891

PN1997 .B533552 2012

791.43/72

BLA1918 Video Service Corp.

Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.

Based on the memoir by John Howard Griffin.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Special features: original trailers; lobby cards. Bonus disc: Uncommon vision: the life and times of John Howard Griffin / produced and written by Morgan C. Atkinson (2010 ; 60 min.); booklet with an excerpt from "Reluctant activists"--the authorized biography of John Howard Griffin / by Robert Bonazzi.

Photography, Victor Lukens, Henry Mueller II ; editor, Lora Hays ; music, Meyer Kupferman.

James Whitmore, Roscoe Lee Browne, Clifton James, Will Geer, Sorrell Booke, Al Freeman, Jr., Robert Gerringer, John Marriott, Thelma Oliver, Lenka Petersen, P.J. Sidney.

James Whitmore, Roscoe Lee Browne, Clifton James, Will Geer, Sorrell Booke, Al Freeman, Jr., Robert Gerringer, John Marriott, Thelma Oliver, Lenka Petersen, P.J. Sidney.

DVD, all regions; widescreen and full screen; 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks.

Uncommon vision.

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