A film I've seen several times and a ground-breaking film (to an extent) about a romance between a white girl and an African American professor. The film was adequate and seems to have garnered much too much praise at its time. It certainly has lost its lustre. And to think that Katherine Hepburn won an Oscar as the mother, a role that required her to do almost nothing. It was NOT at all a well deserved Oscar, one of the poorest choices in Oscar history. Spencer was very good as well as the diverse supporting cast chief among which would be Beah Richards who received a well deserved Supporting Oscar Nomination. Nonetheless, director Stanley Kramer kept challenging audiences of the time with his provocative themes. The film is too sappy and unrealistic in several areas. For example, Kramer never had a major kissing scene between the couple, which to my mind is ridiculous, but I guess impossible to show at the time. One still had to tread carefully over such matters.
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