Shadows (1960)

PG10/14/1960Drama1h 27m
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A film not to be missed.

Overview

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Ben Carruthers

    Ben

  2. Cast 1

    Lelia Goldoni

    Lelia

  3. Cast 1

    Hugh Hurd

    Hugh

  4. Cast 1

    Anthony Ray

    Tony

  5. Dennis Sallas

    Dennis

  6. Cast 1

    Tom Reese

    Tom

  7. David Pokitillow

    David

  8. Cast 1

    Rupert Crosse

    Rupert

  9. Davey Jones

    Davey

On paper, this jazz-fuelled, experimental looking, observation of racial tensions within a small group of friends made for an interesting concept. The execution though, well I found that really quite messy. There's three siblings. "Benny" (Ben Carruthers); "Hugh" (Hugh Lord) and "Leila" (Leila Goldoni) with the sister having a far fairer skin tone than her brothers. "Benny" is a bit of a loose cannon, going with the flow in life; "Hugh" is a musician who is having a bit of a crisis of confidence that not even his supportive manager "Rupert" (Rupert Cross) can pull him from and finally there's ...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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